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Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: ca 26 Dec 1980

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

Reference: EP/1980/4231-F

Description: Abandoned cars on roadsides in Porirua East, photographed by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post, circa 26 December 1980. Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) strip with 9 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1971

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-66533-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, taken for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1971 by K E Niven and Co. commercial photographers of Wellington Other - Envelope contains: 526/71, KBR-Shots at dunlop factory (U.H.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 7 cm

Date: 1934

Reference: PAColl-7010

Description: Photographs of the celebrations for Archbishop Redwood's golden jubliee in 1934 including the mass in Sacred Heart Cathedral, the parade along Lambton Quay, and the assembly in Athletic Park. Also included are events outside the Maori catholic church and presbytery in Otaki. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-094358 to 094381 Quantity: 22 b&w original negative(s) glass. 2 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-418-001/021

Description: Political cartoons. The Auckland Blues win Super-12 game. As Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark soar in the opinion polls Jim Bolger considers a sex-change. Tim Shadbolt becomes deputy leader of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party. Tuku Morgan is accused of seeking a fee for an exclusive interview with the media. Public opinion on Tuku Morgan's behaviour. Maori bashing continues over Tuku Morgan, as Maori hit themselves and ask why he just doesn't resign. Maori occupy land in Waiouru during winter as temperatures hit a low. They are protesting against the wild horse mustering? Winston Peter's accepts Tuku Morgan's apology and assumes the moral high ground. International study shows kiwi kids poor at maths but good at bullying. Bob Jones suggests that the Beehive be dynamited. A look at genetic makeup in terms of race. Comment on teacher inaction over bullying in school play grounds. Jim Bolger comments on a meeting between National Party and New Zealand First MPs held in his home. Buyer beware - used car importers rip people off. Comment on what iwi-based Treaty settlements mean to many Maori. The International Rugby Board (IRB) threatens to clamp down on New Zealand style rugby. The law forbids the rich and the poor from living in shoddy housing that leads to unneccesary fires and death. School leaving age kept at 16. Winston Peters finds himself on a high-wire with pressures all around him like, 'fiscal restraint', 'Maori hopes', 'social spending' and 'NZ First's last chance'. Winston Peters goes off to Hong Kong leaving Jim Bolger and Bill Birch defending the budget. Winston Peters at the handover of Hong Kong to China, continues to warn about the Asian take over. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1992

By: Welch, Miles, active 2004

Reference: PAColl-8593

Description: Photograph of the Arahura in Porirua Harbour. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1992. Source of title - Title supplied by the Library. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler print, 21.5 x 14.5 cm Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - PR-04-0120 - A certificate which is part of this donation is in the Ephemera Collection at Eph-A-Ferry-1992-01..

Date: 1971

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-66518-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, taken for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1971 by K E Niven and Co. commercial photographers of Wellington. Shows the Bag-o-matic press with Ron Whewell on the left. Other - Envelope contains: 526/71, KBR-Shots at dunlop factory (U.H.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 7 cm

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6968

Description: Photographs of boys practising their diving at Te Aro Baths. One looks as Also includes an image of passengers leaning on the railings of a steamship, possibly one of the harbour ferries such as the Cobarl, and a group of cars and people on the shore at Karaka Bay looking out towards some small boats. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059174 to 059184 Quantity: 11 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: ca 1930s

From: Hird, Edward James, 1924-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7754-2

Description: Loose photographs extracted from album (PA1-o-1549). Includes photographs of a hill climbing sports car event, sports car club meeting, Wellington beaches, Wellington suburbs and housing developments, and the construction of a house. Mr Hird was an electrical designer, involved in the development of television, designing radios for Sir Edmund Hillary in Antarctica, and was apparently in radio surveillance in WW2. His father taught at Seatoun school. Mr Hird lived most of his life in the house at Mantell Street. See 'Freedom' newspaper, 25 Nov 1953, p.6 re his involvement in developing television. He was also a jazz musician. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 9 Jun 1995

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

By: Burford, Melanie Jayne, 1970-

Reference: EP/1995/1755-F

Description: Constable Paul Woollett at a Crime Expo in Lower Hutt, Wellington, demonstrating to St Bernard's College students what a car crash is like while wearing a seatbelt. Photographs taken 9 June 1995 by Evening Post staff photographer Melanie Burford. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strips with 2 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 1936-1938

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/11

Description: Correspondence and papers re New Zealand Standards Institute (2nd Annual Report), 1938; Upper Hutt Fire Brigade; National Relief Fund for Spanish Refugee Children, 1938; Guildford estate, Silverstream, 1938; New Zealand Forestry League; National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, 1938; state funeral of Sir Truby King, 1938; National Committee of Swimming & Life Saving, 1937; Far East Relief Fund, 1937; fire districts, 1937; water connection at Gracefield Road, 1937; testing of motor vehicles (Chain Testing Stations), 1937; King George V National Memorial Fund, 1937; highway lighthouses, 1937; coronation celebrations, 1937; Eastbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade, 1937; Forest and Bird Protection Society re Days Bay, 1937; introduction of `Milk in Schools', 1937; accommodation for bathers at Waikanae Beach, 1937; night soil depots in Upper Hutt, 1936 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [Ca 22 July 1987]

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

Reference: Dom/1987/0723/01-F

Description: Firefighters at garage fire, Silverstream. Photographs taken ca 22 July 1987 by staff photographers of The Dominion newspaper. Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) strips with 8 frames. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: ca 1 Oct 1982

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

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1982/3364-F

Description: Todd Motors car yard in Porirua, photographed ca 1 Oct 1982 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Overlooks hundreds of new Mitsubishi cars and some utility vehicles. Signs advertising Grahame Berridge Motor Bodies Ltd, Motor Specialists Ltd, Dunlop, and Suzuki, are in the background. Original caption reads: "The Todd yard at Porirua - more than 800 cars." (Evening Post, 1 Oct 1982) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1970

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-57714-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, photographed for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1970 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with three images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 167/70 F.

Date: 1970

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-57632-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, photographed for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1970 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington. Description from negative envelope and studio card index. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Photographer's ref no: 167/70 F.

Date: 1911

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918; Daniell, Charles Edward, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-188

Description: Views of the Mangatarera Stream and Mount Holdsworth opens a record of a climb to the summit of Holdsworth. The party consists of six women and about five men. There are views of the stream and the swing bridge leading to the Holdsworth track; several shots of the Mountain House with the climbing party arranged along the veranda, and Mr McGregor's party who had arrived on horseback to fix the water tank; the climbing party grouped in the bush on the way up the mountain and on the open alpine ridges; a surveyors tent in the alpine tussock; the party eating beside the Holdsworth Trig; views of the Tararua Ranges from the summit of Mount Holdsworth. Interspersed among the main image groups are photographs of a trip to Rotorua. This involved a group of people in two motor cars. There are images of the Hamurana Stream and Springs at Rotorua, and of children diving for pennies at Whakarewarewa. Views of mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, the Mangaehuehu Stream, the Crater Lake and the crater on Ngauruhoe, and mountaineers crossing the ice field on Ruapehu and climbing Ngauruhoe. There is a view of Matterhorn Peak the name of which was changed to Girdlestone Peak in 1922. Two images of a surveyors' camp in the Waimarino Bush. The Tern Arch and Little Hawke's Crag on the Buller Gorge road. A view of Lake Tarawerea from the top of Mount Tarawera. The final photograph is a view along the beach to Pencarrow Head, Wellington. Pasted inside the front cover is a cutting from `The Weekly News', Wednesday, December 26, 1945, entitled `New Zealand's highest memorial' by JWG, describing the renaming in 1922, of Matterhorn Peak (Tongariro National Park) to Girdlestone Peak in honour of Hubert Earle Girdlestone after he was killed in action in August 1918. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - To Mr and Mrs Daniell with kindest recollections from a very old friend, Hugh Girdlestone, March 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brownish green cover, 25 x 20 cm Provenance: The album had been presented to Daniell in March 1911 by Hubert Girdlestone.

Date: Aug 1906-May 1919

By: Wellington Motor Vehicle Registration. Wellington District

Reference: MS-Papers-10876

Description: Motor vehicle registrations, Wellington District, typed from cards held at the Wellington City Archives (Series 00293). Cards for Jun 1919-1926 are also available at the Wellington City Archives (Series 00293). The registration gives the registration number, date, type of vehicle, horse power, use and owner's name and address, as well as a remarks column Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See additional data to these registrations at MS-Papers-7067 Relationship complexity - Wellington City Archives have Series No 00293, Motor Vehicle Register (1906-1924; see drawer in Workroom, Ephemera from other institutions for description The Wellington District covered the lower North Island Quantity: 1 folder(s) (177 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6848

Description: 25 images including two of what is probably earthquake damage to buildings in Hawke's Bay following the 1931 earthquake; four of a gathering at a wool shed flying the union jack (location unknown); one of the war memorial in Cathedral Square, Christchurch; one of a small wooden church without a tower or steeple (location unknown); a general view of the town where the same church is located; two of a derailment; eight of various locomotives, steam, diesel and electric, including one of a railcar sitting at Wellington Railway Station and one of an electric locomotive and carriages at Paekakariki station; one of a line of buses at a rural depot with passengers waiting; two boys and a man next to their car; a boy crouching next to a man; and a landscape (location unknown). Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029898 to 029903, 030017, 030035 to 030036, 030039, 030044 to 030050, 030997, 031000 to 031003, 031006, 031011 and 031015. Quantity: 25 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives