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Date: 1898-1996

By: Island Bay Presbyterian Church

Reference: MS-Group-0857

Description: Records include Session minutes, correspondence and papers, 1914-1924, 1939-1996; Board of Managers, 1958-1991; financial records, 1898-1903, 1953-1980; Building Committee, 1965-1966; marriage registers, 1914-1967; baptismal certificate stubs, 1932-1941, 1965-1967; communicants and attendance registers, 1918-1969; Sunday School records, 1926-1933, 1958-1969; Bible classes, 1932-1944, 1960-1966; church newsletters, 1934-1970; and records of various other church groups, ca 1919-1980s Relationship complexity - For further records see 88-017, boxes 36 and 37 The church was opened on 9 Oct 1898 Quantity: 59 folder(s). 15 volume(s). 1.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 1967 to 1968

By: Mitchell, Winifred Alice, active 1968

Reference: PA1-o-344

Description: Photograph album relating to Knox Presbyterian Church, Invercargill. Interior and exterior photographs of Knox Presbyterian Church in Invercargill in 1967, including scenes of the final service in the older building, followed by images of the new church in Pomona Street in 1968. Includes photographs of the new church next to the Ellesland homestead, the original homestead on the property. Photographs (taken by Miss W A Mitchell), interspersed with biblical texts. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - "To the Glory of God". Knox Presbyterian Church, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey cover bound with red cord, entitled `Photographs'; 20 x 24 cm

Date: 25 Mar-3 Apr 1941

By: Comrie, William James (Very Rev), 1860-1945

Reference: MS-Papers-4210

Description: Draft of letter (25 Mar 1941) from Comrie to Cowan, requesting information about the account provided by James McDonald of the defence of the Pukekohe East Presbyterian Church stockade against a Waikato war party on 14 Sep 1863. The account was reported in Cowan's book, `The New Zealand Wars' (1922-1923). Also Cowan's reply, 3 Apr 1941. Source of title - Supplied Comrie, a Presbyterian minister, was the author of `The Presbytery of Auckland: Early Days and Progress' (1939) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces, 7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and ms

Date: 1924

From: Various architects :[Plans for St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Woburn Road, Lower Hutt. 1924-1991].

By: Blake, Edward McCallum, 1865-1929

Reference: Plans-2000-023-002

Description: Shows a floor plan highlighting the Infants' Class Room, a cross-section, and east and south elevations. St Stephen's Presbyterian Church and Laings Road Methodist Church have combined to form the Hutt City Uniting Congregations Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing, on wove paper 451 x 500 mm.

Date: ca 1890-1911

Reference: PAColl-7376

Description: Photographs of Khandallah: from Aplin's farm looking south west with Woodmancote Road centre left; from behind Gorsy Knob looking south with the Presbyterian Church at the junction of Khandallah and Cockayne Roads on the left and the Catholic Church at the end of the row of houses centre right - the former Anglican Babies' Home was in the trees to the right of Presbyterian Church April 1911; from the school, Clark Street in the foreground and the Catholic Church in the centre April 1911; from near the top of Box Hill looking north with a house on Woodmancote Road and others in the distance on Baroda Street; from near the top of Box Hill with Burma Road in the centre and Rangoon Street running to the top right; Aplin's farm from Sunnybank with Burma Road running across the centre with Maldive Street at right angles; and from Te Kainga (top of Jubilee Road) looking west. Others are entered as child records. Photographer unidentified. The image at 1/2-003774 (not included in this collection) is Crompton Smith (PAColl-4073) so this collection may be related. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003765 to 003773 and 003775 to 003779 Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Ca 1912

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001725-G

Description: Presbyterian Church at Kihikihi, circa 1912. Photographed by William Archer Price. Dated from other images in the Price Collection with photographer's numbers noted on them. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Presbyterian Church. Kihikihi. No. 51 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1873-1910

By: Lee, Bertha, 1901-1996

Reference: MS-Papers-10474

Description: A history of St John's Presbyterian Church, Rotorua and people connected with it, including family trees of some early church members Quantity: 1 folder(s) (58 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1967

From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson, architects :[Architectural plans. 1955-1988].

By: Toomath & Wilson Ltd

Reference: Plans-2005-057-0236

Description: Shows DP 25747, lot 2 and lot 9, along Redwood Avenue adjacent to Redwood Primary School. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on tracing paper, 438 x 585 mm.

Date: 1988 - 1992

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: A-398-264/283

Description: Includes floor plan of alterations, with several different schemes for the alterations to the entry. Also includes sections and elevations, a window painting layout plan, a reroofing layout plan, and perspective drawings of the exterior of the church building. Original file numbering was 004.01.04.059 Quantity: 20 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink drawings and photocopies, 297 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 1990s

By: Otaki-Waikanae Parish

Reference: PAColl-6838

Description: Photographs documenting the assembling and refurbishment of the Kelburn Presbyterian at Waikanae Quantity: 66 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: Transfer from MS-Group-0948; Otaki-Waikanae Presbyterian Parish records..

Date: 1880-1935

By: Gibb, James (Rev Dr), 1857-1935

Reference: MS-Papers-2053

Description: His papers reflect his involvement in church, political and social affairs particularly through his pacifism Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Scrapbooks concerning church affairs in Scotland, Australia and Dunedin compiled by Gibb's wife Jeannie (MS-Papers-2054), given by same donor (Acc 74-071) James Gibb was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and educated at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh. He married Jeanie Gibb in 1881 and they sailed for Victoria in 1882, finally arriving in Otago in 1886. He was minister to First Church, Dunedin for 17 years and minister to St John's Church, Willis Street, Wellington. In 1901 he became Moderator of the United Church. Quantity: 51 folder(s). 0.95 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 4 December 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile. A calendar of letters for folders 1 to 9 is available in the back file..

Date: ca1855-ca1940

From: Nisbet, Eleanor M, fl 1980s-1990s :Photographs taken by Charles William Clift

By: Clift, Charles William, 1896-1984

Reference: PAColl-4889-1

Description: Clift and Jones family photographs. New Zealand towns and landscapes, in particular Wellington and Brooklyn. A record of the British aircraft carrier Indefatigable when it visited Wellington in November 1945. New Zealand houses and a very good wedding breakfast laid out in a private interior of the 1890s. There is a photograph of the Clift house in Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and of a Christmas gathering at a house in Patanga Crescent associated with the Holm family of the Holm shipping line. Brooklyn and Makara churches and the interior of the Anglican cathedral in Dunedin Quantity: 1 container(s) photographic prints.

Date: [1900s-1910s?]

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

Reference: PA1-o-339

Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm

Date: 1931 - 1939

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-27

Description: Shows a view looking along Muritai Road towards the north, with St Ronan's Presbyterian Church at the curve of the road in the mid-distance. There is a willow tree in the left foreground and two houses, one at either side of the picture. The church building shown was built in about 1903 and replaced in the early 1960s. Other Titles - A willow Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted into slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 249 x 193 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: 1947 - 1958

By: Roberts, Cyril A, active 1947

Reference: Plans-2006-026

Description: Includes: 1947: Two sheets of plans for the church as built - architect Cyril A Mercer Two sheets of undated plans for additions to Ngaio Presbyterian Church - not built. Architects Roberts & Mercer 1950: Proposed plans for Ngaio Presbyterian Sunday School - not built - 1 sheet 1951: Perspective sketch of proposed extensions to Ngaio Presbyterian Church - not built 1956: Three sheets of preliminary sketches for proposed extensions to Ngaio Presbyterian Church - not built Ca 1958: Two sheets of plans for Ngaio Presbyterian Sunday School Hall, known as McLeod Hall, built 1958. Quantity: 11 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints and pencil drawings, sizes varying

Date: 1980 - 1998

By: Kember, Ian Robert, 1953-1999

Reference: PAColl-5734

Description: Two essays on Gay topics. The 13th Gay and Lesbian Fair, and a record of the life of a gay couple and the house and garden they lived in, and made, over 19 years. Ngaio School's 90th Reunion and some of the people attending. Views of Wellington sites -- the new State Highway 1 motorway interchange at Newlands, the Burma Motor Lodge, Johnsonville Railway line, Khandallah substation site and Thorndon New World Supermarket under construction. Transparencies include Youth for Christ summer programme, El Rancho camp, Waikanai in January 1980, Children at Timaru Highschool (1980), a concert in Civic Square, Wellington, by the National Youth Choir of Britain (1992), and various Wellington sites mainly in the Ngaio area Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm 22294 - 22323, slides at PA12-1519 to PA12-1521 Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). 65 colour original photographic print(s). 12 b&w original negative(s). 16 b&w original negative(s). 54 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1959 - 1960

By: Gray Young, Morton, Calder & Fowler (Firm)

Reference: Plans-98-066

Description: Includes plans, elevations and details. Quantity: 25 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, sizes varying.

Date: 1958

By: Cottrell, Violet May, 1887-1971

Reference: qMS-0574

Description: Also contains list of articles, stories and poems by V May Cotterell, and newsclippings relating to the production of the pageant Quantity: 1 volume(s) (77 pages). Physical Description: 20 cm (red box)

Date: [ca 1940]

By: Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers)

Reference: PAColl-0888

Description: Small captioned photographs, commercially produced by Tanner Bros: of Invercargill - basilica from the Gardens; Queen's Park Gardens; water tower; Boys' High School; Esk Street; Kew Hospital; two of Dee Street; First Presbyterian Church; and the new Post Office. Of Gisborne - two of Gladstone Road; panorama of Kaiti; general view; river bank gardens; looking across the river; nurses' home, Cook Hospital; Poho-o-Rawiri Maori house; Intermediate School; and Cook Hospital. Also included are the original envelopes the snapshots came in. Produced by Blennerhassetts of New Plymouth of Taranaki - six of Mount Taranaki; two of a mountain hut in the snow; Mount Taranaki with a shelter in the foreground; the old house in the snow; and the hotel with the mountain behind it. Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1971

By: Fuller, Geoffrey Francis, 1925-2011; Hastings Bacon Company Ltd

Reference: E-279-q-061

Description: View of St Columba's Presbyterian Church, Havelock North. No 28 of 150 lino-cuts or screen prints specially drawn and produced by G F Fuller. It is attached to the inside of a Christmas card sent out by The Hastings Bacon Company Ltd (Vogtherr's) in 1971. The artist has signed the card on the inside. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lino-cut [?], 77 x 105 mm