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Date: [ca 1930-1943]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-198

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1940s Churches at Hawera, Palmerston North, Opotiki, Te Aroha, Waipukurau, Nelson, Queenstown and Pararaka. Whangarei - Central Park/Mair Park, Mt Darby golf links, children playing in a dinghy at Matapouri, tennis courts. Russell - View of foreshore, and view from the hill with Achilles in port. Tauranga - Causeway between The Mount and Tauranga, pier at The Mount, Mission House. Palmerston North - Boys' High School and baths, View of North side of The Square. Napier - Harbour under construction, view from the hill looking south, The Esplanade showing gardens, children's play area and Sound Shell, National Tobacco Company, T & G Building, Government buildings in Shakespeare Street, Civic Square. Hastings - Poplar Avenue, Cornwall Park, W L C McLean's house Swarthmore at Havelock North with vineyard. Gisborne - Gladstone Road, aerial view of town, river view. Cambridge - Bowling green, BNZ building, clock tower & National Hotel (with caravans parked outside the hotel), etc New Plymouth - Aerial view of 72nd Annual A & P Show; Moturoa; ships in port. Invercargill - The Little Playhouse, Government buildings, Southland Museum, 1943. Also - Children from Kerikeri School leaving for a swim; Arawa Street, Matamata; Lake Drive, Hamilton; view of Lyell township; Burke's Pool, Opihi; Denniston township; Caroline Bay, Timaru; main Street, Winton; shipping at Bluff; Oban township, Stewart Island; view of Picton harbour from Hotel Terminus; Alexander Street, Te Awamutu; Arawa Street, Matamata; Wairoa from Te Uhi Hill; Art Gallery, Wanganui; view of wanganui from Aramono.. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1924

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department; Hunt, Lester G R, active 1913-1924

Reference: MapColl-832.11995gbbd/1924/Acc.47194

Description: Survey plan with bearings and measurements of land between Manse and Cross streets in Whangarei near the main railway line. Also shows numbered land sections in vicinity with details on the fencing between properties. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:792], 44.5 x 39 cm.

Date: 1998

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

Reference: H-539-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Comment on the growing gap between the rich and poor in New Zealand. Soldiers explain why it is humane to cut people's throats once they've been driven from their homes. Jenny Shipley reacts negatively to Jim Bolger's book. Jenny Shipley does a unicycle act on the high/slack wire. She can't look down for fear of falling, and she can't look up for fear of the coalition government she carries on her shoulders. Jack Elder and Tuku Morgan line-up behind Tau Henare in a new political allegiance. The American Republicans are exposed in their determination to impeach President Clinton over sex allegations no matteer what public opinion is. Jenny Shipley announces under National's new housing policy people in sub-standard housing will be assisted to buy their properties rather than rent them. Tim Shadbolt has been re-elected Mayor of Invercargill. Russia backs the bloody regime of Slobodan Milosivic against the Albanians. Jenny Shipley receives a negative reaction from the Dairy Board members over comments they should dig their own graves and make their wills. Jenny Shipley's intention of ending the Producer Board's statutory monopolies is thinnly veiled to avoid farmer backlash prior to the election. The Labour Party surges in the polls although their visibility is low. A paralell is drawn between roading reforms proposals and the manner Warriors' boss comments on players like Matthew Ridge. Commment on telephone electronic cueing messages. Canadian newspapers report that Wellington has the best views in the world. A Wellintonian watches as storms blow uprooted trees, boats, cars and other debris past his window. General Pinochet in jail being interrogated over his part in crimes of terrorism committed against Chilean critics of his Military Junta. Two contenders for the Auckland Blues Rugby coaching job are given a lesson in sportsmanship. Otago win the NPC (National Provincial Championships). Palestinian and Israeli leaders are booed by their supporters for their efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. The Met. office build an ark as an indication of the weather to come. Tuariki Delamere considers his political future. Tau Henare sums up the essence of his new Mauri Pacific Party. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-7364

Description: Photographs of road building or maintenance, such as straightening curves, on the following highways: Great South Road at Huntly; laying concrete on the Paparua County section of the Christchurch-Dunedin highway; bitumen surfacing on the Kamo town section of the Whangarei-Kawakawa highway; bituminous concrete paving on the Halswell County section of the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; bituminous concrete laying on the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; Great South Road Mercer-Ohinewai section near Long Swamp with workmen's camps in the distance; penetration work on the Waitara-Pukearuhe section of the Auckland-Wellington via Taranaki highway; Goat valley section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopua-Raglan highway looking towards Thames; improved alignment on the Kawhia County section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; the Leslie's Gully section of the Hamilton-Rotorua highway looking towards Tamahere; Auckland-Wellington highway near Wanganui; improved curve on the New Plymouth-Kaimata highway; Great South Road at Long Swamp; Great South Road at Taupiri Gorge; the Rangiriri Hills deviation of the Great South Road; Hamilton-Rotorua highway near Tamahere showing bitumen on tar sealing; Whatawhata-Raglan highway from near Whatawhata; Rotorua-Whakatane highway; widening work on the Coromandel main highway; Auckland-Wellington highway near Lepperton; bitumen surface on Saddle Hill on the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; bitumen concrete at Halswell on the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopu-Raglan highway; Rangiriri deviation. Also included are three unidentified bridges, one built by J T Julian & Son; the bridge at Motueka; a Rotorua County Council speed limit sign on the Ngongotaha bridge; Waitakaruru bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; McCormick's bridge on the Thames Coast highway; replacement of King's Creek bridge on the Gisborne-Napier highway; the Karangahake bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; and railway carts being loaded at Mosgile quarry for the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway. Arrangement: Artifical collection although some of the prints are from the same source (eg 12-004447 and 004448). Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-56..

Date: 29 Apr, 6 May 2009 - 29 Apr 2009 - 06 May 2009

From: Honouring seniors oral history project

By: Gunson, Kenneth Desmond, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0979-04

Description: Interview with Kenneth (Ken) Desmond Gunson, born in Purewa, Northland in 1926. Describes his early childhood, as the youngest of five children raised on a small farm adjacent to gumfields, by a father who was a grader driver for Whangarei County Council, and a mother who kept large gardens and maintained the family's self-sufficiency. Talks about his dislike of school, which he left at 14, and the variety of work he did from childhood, including cutting firewood, working as a farrier, blacksmith, grader driver, and sawmill worker. Talks about hunting for birds, pigs, rabbits and hares. Tells of meeting his wife at a dance in Frankton. Descibes his main job, working on county roads as a grader driver which included roadmaking and making airstrips in isolated back country of the district. Talks about his workmates, and their recreations: dancing, going to the pictures, and various sports. Discusses the family backgrounds of both parents, and their life stories. Talks about Maori history of the district, and lists names of pakeha families who settled there. Interviewer(s) - Patricia Cutforth Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001253 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 7 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 1.43 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001262, OHA-7482. Digital photograph of Ken Gunson and family (2009). Scanned B&W or sepia photographs of: Lizzie cars gone to the beach; Ken and older brother ploughing for potatoes (1930); Gunson kids off to school on horseback (1934); Grace and Ken Gunson (1941); Ken Gunson (1949); Ken Gunson and new Whangarei District Council Cat grader (2 photos, 1965). Scanned colour photographs of: Ken Gunson - farrier demonstration (1974); Ken Gunson (2004) Search dates: 1926 - 2009

Date: 30 Dec 1992 - 4 Jun 1994 - 04 Jun 1994

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Hooper, Phyllis May, 1903-2002

Reference: OHInt-0430/06

Description: Phyllis Hooper was born in Warkworth in 1903 and moved to Wayby with her family when she was three. Talks about deliveries of groceries and mail. Recalls a bad flood, basic living conditions and her family being given use of the shop behind the house in return for care of the shop and telephone. Describes how telegrams came through. Recalls the building of a store by the Civil brothers at Wellsford and the closure of the Wayby shop when the railway went through. Recalls problems stabilising banks for the railway. Describes large camps of workers associated with the railway construction. Recalls walking to school, jobs after school and various games. Describes problems with teachers at the school during World War I, going to Wellsford for proficiency and failing. Talks about resitting it and attending St Cuthberts as a weekly boarder. Describes being taught music in Wellsford by Connie Balance and at St Cuthberts by Mrs Archdale Tayler. Recalls how their family got a piano and an organ. Describes how school finished early in 1918 because of the flu epidemic and how some of the children were quarantined at school for six weeks. Mentions the announcement of the Armistice during the flu epidemic and the effect of celebrations on some flu victims. Talks about Dr Meinhold of Helensville and his knowledge of the `plague' (the flu) from Germany. Talks about beginning to teach music in 1920, teaching technique and her parents move to Tauhoa. Describes her weekly journeys between there and Helensville on a horse. Describes marrying in 1928, her husband's singing lessons and their nightly recitals. Recalls being in a singing group with the Women's Division Federated Farmers (WDFF) and playing the piano and organ for the church and Sunday school. Describes hearing visiting pianists Fritz Kreister and Paderewski. Interviewer(s) - Beverley Bennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3328.

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7034

Description: Photographs of Mount Tarawera, and the Kaipara District taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Views include Mount Tarawera and farmland; sand patterns and rocks at Baylys Beach; a sand yacht, barnacles and a crab, and tyre marks on Baylys Beach; storm at Glinks Gully; bridge on Opouteke Road; gantry being used in construction of a bridge over the North Wairoa River; sunset at Baylys Beach; M. Hansen's yacht; Mangaraho Rock; cliffs at Baylys Beach; a gateway on Pouto Road; the North Wairoa River at Tangowahine; pampas grass (wrongly named as toetoe) reflected in water; pollution from a dairy company on the North Wairoa River; breaking waves at Baylys Beach. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7035

Description: Photographs of the Kaipara District taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Views include farmland at Arapohue; Maunganui Bluff; Brian Froggatt after a tri-athlon; wood in a lignite reef at Baylys Beach; kauri trees in the Trounson Kauri Park; old and new bridges on the North Wairoa River; Cathedral Grove in the Waipoua Forest; Dargaville parade day; Dargaville and the bridge; forestry in the Kaihu Valley; farmland on the Babylon Coast Road; inner Hokianga Harbour from the lookout. Quantity: 13 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 9

Reference: PAColl-6181-41

Description: Road construction between Wellsford and Te Hana, circa 1920s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 14

Reference: PAColl-6585-56

Description: Road construction, Waipoua Kauri Forest, circa 1920s. Photographer, and road workers, unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.8 x 20.1 cm, mounted on to card