Places

Date: ca1908

By: Skinner, V (Mrs), active 1986; Warren, Gertrude, active 1908?; Wonderland (Amusement park)

Reference: PAColl-1357

Description: Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 7 photocopy/ies in one envelope. Provenance: Photographs taken by "Gertrude Warren, mother of (illegible)"

Date: 1911

By: Hector McLeod & Company; McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: Eph-E-LOCAL-Miramar-1911-01

Description: Shows a map of the streets of Miramar, Seatoun, Worser Bay, Karaka Bay and Evans Bay (including projected reclamation). The map is surrounded by advertisements for the following local businesses: Briscoe & Company (Wunderlich Ceilings and Marseilles Tiles), C S & P Cording (booksellers, Courtenay Place), D Palliser (chemist, Courtenay Place), Miramar Tramway Junction Land Co, A Lindsay Ltd (shoe shop, Lambton Quay and Cuba Street), B Matthews (painter and decorator, Miramar), F Mildenhall (plumber, Miramar), DIC, Miramar Building & Investment Company, Jackson & Co (paint and glass importers, Cuba Street), H K Robertshaw (baker and grocer), William Telford (Glen Dairy, Miramar) Another two copies of the map only, are held at MapColl 832.4799gbbd Mi 1911 11008. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on sheet 660 x 570 mm (most of bottom strip missing) Transfers: From the Hector McLeod papers, MS-Papers, 0154, 43A - card index..

Date: 1905-1906

From: Land deeds, land grants and bonds

Reference: MS-Papers-0156-13

Description: Agreements between: Phil D Davis - E Balcombe Brown, John Whiteman, Job Harrison, 1905 (Includes accounts from G G Schwartz, architect; erection of trapshed and stables at Upper Hutt); E Balcombe Brown with John Whiteman, farmer, Upper Hutt, 1906; Watts Peninsula Land Company Ltd with Norman Reid, tea expert, Wellington and Rivers Johnson Loe, accountant, 1906; Norman Reid and R J Loe with Kilbirnie Estate Company Ltd, 1906 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces).

Date: 11 May 1987

From: New Zealand National Party : Further records

Reference: 89-075-137/36

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1937

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Mi/[1937]/Acc.10229-30

Description: Cadastral map of two lots with acreages and boundary measurements on Seatoun Heights Road. Includes a twenty foot wide right of way to a back section and a twenty foot wide reserve from the Wellington City Council reservoir. The annotation to this base map is the addition of colourwash to highlight the sections. The second map is a locality plan of the area from Scots College and Monorgan Road to Miramar South School and Park Road. Includes the Pass of Branda, Marine Parade and Awa Street. A library is marked on Broadway, includes sites of a quarry, reservoir, a convent and Roman Catholic School, an Anglican Church and nearby residence, a Presbyterian Church, tennis courts and bowling green, a school, Beacon Hill Signal Station Reserve, Military Reserve, Seatoun Park, Seatoun Wharf, Telegraph Reserve, Worser Bay. Streets are named and the route of the tramway is marked. The annotation to this map is the position of the land for sale on Seatoun Heights Road. Map accompanied by a copy of a typewritten letter dated 11th January 1937, from H. Gyles Turner of the Wellington Harbour Board, Chief Engineer's office to Gordon Harcourt, 153-155 Featherston Street, Wellington. The content of the letter refers to the accompanying plans and the varying prices for the sections. Reference is made to the location on the Seatoun side of the hill, includes details of shelter from the winds, and refers to the exceptional view. The address of Wellington Harbour Board is Box 938, C.P.O., Wellington. Cable address - Harbord Wellington. Other Titles - Part of subdivision of Lot 76, Deposited Plan 1463, Part Section 10, Watts Peninsula Scale of locality plan not stated Quantity: 2 map(s) including a locality plan. Physical Description: Colourwash on diazo print, linen backed, coloured, scale [1:480], 26.5 x 30 cm.

Date: 1929 - 1932 - 1948 - 1938

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-007-069/077

Description: Includes plan of sections near the intersection of Townsend, Awa, Matai Roads and Rotheram Terrace; plans for a timber house to be erected at Matai Road Miramar for Mrs C H Mitchell; garage for Mr C H Mitchell at Darlington Road Miramar; house at Rakau Road Hataitai; alterations to a residence of Mr C H Mitchell at Roseneath. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings and diazo prints on waxed linen, sizes varying.

Date: 1934-1940

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-60

Description: Includes Native Land Court documents of the Wellington region; newspaper cuttings dealing with major and minor issues of the period including the Report of the Native Affairs Commission and Apirana Ngata; tributes and obituaries, horse racing, comic caption competitions, Maori land settlements of the time, articles on brothels, concerts, Maori history, New Zealand flora and fauna Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1898, 1901

Reference: PAColl-3375

Description: D Battery in Wellington comprising 6 pound Armstrong cannon at an Evans Bay shoot; posing for the camera at Miramar; in camp in Miramar. Also during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1901

By: Brown, John Henry, active 1899-1906

Reference: PA1-o-419

Description: Photographs of a polo tournament held at Miramar in 1901. The first part of the album shows the various teams (Rangitikei, Wellington, Christchurch, Oroua, Hawke's Bay, Hawera and Victorian) competing, in which the team names are given, but individual players are unidentified. There are also action snapshots of some of the games. Pages 27 to 30 show the "Donkey Polo Team", as a group, and then in action on the field. Inside back cover a hand-written note reads "Any of the snapshots in this book may be obtained from J.H. Brown, 180 Willis St., Wellington, N.Z. Teams 2/6, snapshots 1/-. Please quote number when ordering". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, darker brown corners and spine; entitled "Polo Tournament, Miramar, N.Z., 1901" in gold lettering; 18.5 x 27.5 cm

Date: 1900-1901

From: Brown, Christina Letitia Richardson, 1891-1981 : Papers of Christina L R Brown and Thomas Watson Brown

Reference: MSI-Papers-0522

Description: Includes maps relating to the South African War and a sketch map of Miramar used for military exercises removed from MS-Papers-0522-1/5/1 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1963

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Wellington (N.Z. : Region). Regional Council

Reference: MapColl-WRC-1/2/6D-Acc.

Description: Wellington Regional Council planning units Base map: NZMS 16. Wellington, sheet 4, ist ed (Wellington: Lands and Survey Department, 1 Apr 1959) Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale 1:6336, 93 x 68 cm.

Date: 1920 - 1929

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Mi/[192-?]/Acc.25320

Description: Part cadastral, part togographic map of the area from Shelley Bay, Mapuia, Tauhinu and Park roads, Evans Bay and including Weka Street. Includes some numbered sections with C.T. or D.P. numbers. Crown Land and Wellington City Council land is marked, as is land suitable for building. Togographic features are described as quarry, steep sidlings and a saddle. A formed and metalled road to Mount Crawford Prison is marked, as are partly formed roads, possible roadlines with gradient and a roadway to a house. Other Titles - Plan of part sections 3 - 7, Watts Peninsula Registration District, Block VII, Port Nicholson Survey District Pencilled annotations on bottom right of map are of C.T. numbers with various totals not referred to in a key Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and colourwash on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:2 376], 80 x 81 cm.

Date: 1911-1928

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-335

Description: Largely concerning Miramar Junction Tramway Land Company Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: 1906

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ferries and ferry services in New Zealand, 1900-1969]

By: Miramar Ferry Company

Reference: Eph-A-FERRY-1906-01

Description: Weekly ferry ticket for Wellington Harbour, run by the Miramar Ferry Company. Verso note indicates that this was the first weekly ticket for the service, issued on 12 May 1906. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, stamp and holograph, on pale green card 61 x 91 mm.

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

By: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973

Reference: E-029-q-067

Description: View looking east towards the Orongorongos in the far distance, and houses in Miramar in the distance. Evans Bay Wharf and the benzine tanks are in the middle distance across the other side of the bay. A sailing ship is in the bay. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 1900 - 1940

From: McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1870s-1957 :Maps from papers

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Se/[n.d.]/Acc.38018

Description: Cadastral map of numbered sections on Seatoun Road and in the vicinity of Beacon Road, now known as Beacon Hill Road, and Church Street. Sections include acreages and boundary measurements. One section is marked for tennis and bowling. Some roads are un-named. Other Titles - Part of sections 10 and 16, Watts Peninsula, Deposited Plan 2233 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:792], 45.1 x 23 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1902-1927. Business papers. MS-Papers-0154.

Date: 1901-1927

By: McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: MS-Papers-0154

Description: Papers deal with Hector McLeod Ltd (estate agents and valuers) re property transactions in Wellington; Wellington Brick Company; New Zealand Peat Oils Ltd; Southland Oils Extraction Syndicate; Anderson's Improved Cinematograph; Kino Ltd; and other business ventures; religious issues including Bible in State Schools League; local body affairs in Miramar, Wellington Some papers relate to his brother, Malcolm Daniel McLeod. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 45 folder(s) 1 volume. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs transferred 10 Oct 1960; postcards 2005 - To Ephemera Collection - Map of Miramar with advertising, 1911 - To Cartographic Collection - 26 manuscript maps (MapColl-Collection-McLeod).

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1929 - 1947 - 1930

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm); McKeon, William John, 1896-1973

Reference: Plans-91-0758/0767

Description: Includes plans for fire escape to east end of school building, prefabricated army hut for temporary classroom, details of built-in fittings (drawers and dressing tables), food trolleys for kitchen, site plan, additional accommodation to Gibb House, and one plan showing plan elevations and sections of a new sports pavilion (1930). Some plans are by architects Crichton McKay & Haughton and W J McKeon. Some are drawn and traced by J.C.M. Quantity: 10 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo plans, and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 520 x 740 mm.