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Date: May 1956

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1113

Description: Launches at Milford Sound. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken May 1956 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 68 x 38 cm

Date: 1944-1961

By: Jenkin, Robert, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-4312

Description: Collection comprises: Coast guard launch no1, Manakau, a 22 ft hard chine launch built late 1930s of demolition kauri by the sons of A J Jenkin, photographed by Cleve Jenkin. Unloading cattle at Okupu, Great Barrier Island, taken ca 1939 by Cleve Jenkin. 60ft cargo vessel built 1945 for Fijian Government, photographed in Auckland by A N Breckon. Photographs of sailing ships Kommodore Johnsen (ex Magdelene Vinnen) and Pamir, taken ca 1930s by Cleve Jenkin. Launch Maralon being launched at Kerikeri inlet, photographed 1961 by Cleve Jenkin. Lighter built in Auckland for the US Navy, photographed 1944 by Cleve Jenkin. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1951-1952

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-09

Description: Photographs taken during Pascoe family holidays to Pelorous Sound and Te Towaka at the head of Hallam Cove. People in the images include family members, passengers on the mail launch from Picton, people waiting on jetties, and people associated with the farm at Te Towaka. There are views down onto the homestead at Te Towaka from the slopes of Mount Shewell, and images of farm activities. Many photographs are of the sounds and the hills surrounding them. A group of photographs in this collection continues on from the previous box. Though the rest were dated 1950/51, there are later images mixed in. Some are from "Half a day in a mail launch" most of which are in the previous box and dated 1958/59. Quantity: 71 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1928

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-075

Description: Photo of a man on a jetty with two cream cans with launch below. Photographed at Pukeruru on the Mokau River in 1928 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Mokau River 1928. At Pukeruru wharf.; Verso - centre - Loading the cans of cream down onto Eric Lewis's cream launch for the trip down to Mokau. This service operated on alternate days - down one day with the cream - back next day with the empty cans and the mail. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 21.4 x 16.4 cm

Date: 1950s

By: Skilton, Ken E, active 2002; Skilton, E (Mrs), active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7622

Description: Commercial slides promoting big-game fishing in New Zealand. There are images and narrative text, and the target markets are Australia and the West Coast of the United States. Arrangement: Transparencies at PA12-2415 to PA12-2417 Quantity: 35 b&w original transparency/ies (35mm slides).

Date: [1929-1930]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-055

Description: Launch on the Mokau River with house in the distance, photographed ca 1930 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Mokau River - 1929/30; Verso - top left - View from point looking down river & showing Sage's House in the distance - cream launch also. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 11.2 x 15.7 cm

Date: 1914 - 1916

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the Church of England and Anglican congregations, parishes, churches and buildings in New Zealand]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-A-1914-01

Description: Postcard showing a photograph by photographer Frederick Nelson Jones shows a group of men in clerical garb at the left, two of them standing on a small boat. A congregation in hats stands on the wharf beyond. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, sepia, on card, 88 x 140 mm Provenance: Donated by Michael Ross, Exeter, UK, in 2014

Date: 30 Mar 1983

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Clark, Arthur Lyonel, 1900-1986

Reference: OHInt-0470/07

Description: Lyonel Clark was born in 1900 and came to Rotorua in 1917 to work for Mr Penney on land at Kaharoa for a year. Describes his work milking, driving a horse team and clearing land. Mentions that Mr Penney was the first Town Clerk of Rotorua. Recalls getting a launchmaster's ticket and running a launch service to Waiheke Island. Describes how his father's objection to his working on a Sunday ended his part in this business and he went to work for the government at Tarawera. Mentions his wife Amy. Talks about head guide and thermal expert Mr Warbrick. Notes that the government ran six launches on Lake Tarawera at the time including the `Maroro', `Huia', `Patiti', `Reremoana' and `Irene'. Mentions a service he ran from Rotorua to Okere on the `Princess' and a launch service on Lake Okataina. Recalls ferrying the Governor Sir Charles Fergusson on Lake Okataina. Mentions operating the `Crusader' on Lake Rotoiti. Describes becoming a service driver in Rotorua and running the daily car service from Rotorua to Auckland. Mentions he drove a Hudson and recalls competition with another driver on the same route in a Willys Knight. Discusses getting work in Auckland during the Depression and running the `Tawa' for the Ferry Company. Recalls living on Pine Island in the harbour. Describes a venture on Lake Okataina with Cecil Hayward and Tom Clark operating a launch service and a fishing lodge. Recalls driving a bus out to Ruatahuna for the funeral of Rua Kenana. Mentions the Rotorua Bus Company, the Smiths, Hori Mau and others. Discusses other launch owners and bus drivers. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2855.

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

By: Hatwell, Neville, 1918?-1969

Reference: PA12-8813

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This group includes both slides Mr Williams took himself, and slides he purchased. Several of these were taken by Neville Hatwell. This sheet shows Queenstown Lakes District, and Milford. Views include Queenstown; the Remarkables in the evening with the launch 'Moana' moored at a pier on Lake Wakatipu in the foreground; Lake Manapouri; Te Anau township; the Eglinton Valley and Hollyford Valley, both taken by Neville Hatwell; portal of the Homer Tunnel, and views the other side en route to Milford Sound, including Mount Tutoko and the Cleddau River; the Milford Track; views of the Sound, Sutherland Falls, Lake Ada, Sandfly Point and Sinbad Gully; and the Milford Sound airstrip with a small plane on the runway. The slides are not filed in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 20 May 1992

From: Rawene Public Library oral history project

By: Brindle, Stephen John, 1907-2000

Reference: OHInt-0641/02

Description: Stephen John Brindle born Devonport 1907. Talks about father's life at sea and describes events leading up to father's arrival in New Zealand, with reference to Capt. Skinner of the Melanesian Mission schooner `Southern Cross'. Gives brief description of Melanesian Mission activities and previous Southern Cross wrecked around the Islands. Mentions father's friends, Mr and Mrs S P Andrew, a photographer in Wellington. Recalls returning from school to become father's assistant on the farm and family move back to Onoke in 1926. Refers to father belonging to Masonic Lodge in Kohukohu. Describes courtship and marriage in 1935. Mentions father-in-law, William Digby Young. Describes having tonsils removed by Dr Smith, appendicitis removed when 21 years and flu epidemic (1918-1919). Discusses history of Onoke's Native Land Court - the first in the Hokianga but not the first in New Zealand as records show. Explains that Whangarei held a court in 1862 and Onoke ca 1865. Discusses transport and the use of launches which were dependent on tides. Gives long and very detailed description of the cream-launch routine and the navigational skills needed to negotiate creeks and landing-stages in the darkness. Mentions launch driver, Ivor Bryers. Interviewer(s) - Alexa Whaley Venue - Omapere Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010750 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3805.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1510-F

Description: Panoramic view of Lake Wanaka. There is a jetty in the right foreground with four people standing at the end near two launches moored alongside. A dinghy is pulled up on the shore. A "White Star Taxi" (Number plate 140-833) is parked at the end of the jetty in the right foreground. There are houses partially visible among trees on the far left, and across the bay in the left middle distance. Two other men are standing by the lake on the left. Steep hills in the background. Reflections in the water. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Lake Wanaka. New Zealand. No. 877 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 112.4 cm

Date: [Circa 1890s-1920s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Ewart, Jessie, active 1900-1935; Murrell, John Robert, 1886-1918; Ross, Charles S, active 1890s-1900s; Theomin, Dorothy Michaelis, 1888-1966; Tuff, Alec, active 1920s; Wimperis, Miss, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-0959-26

Description: Photographs of lakes, mountains and valleys in the Lake Manapouri, Doubtful Sound areas. Various photographers have been identified, some with only their surname. They include C S Ross, Alec Tuff (images 109-111), Miss Theomin [Dorothy Michaelis Theomin] (images 90, 97 and 111), Miss Wimperis (a folder entitled "Miss Wimperis" containing images numbered 86-101), J Murrell (a folder containing images numbered 102-107), J Ewart (image no. 93), D.W.(image no. 112), and probably W A K Kennedy. Several images show individuals (only one of whom has been identified (W. Grave)), and unidentified groups. A number of views show launches and their passengers on Lake Manapouri and in Doubtful Sound. Between images numbered 107 and 108 are three empty folders entitled "Waiau River"; "On the track from Lake Manapouri to the Sd.; "On the Sound (Doubtful Sd) and its arms, Smith, Hall, Crooked, Deep Cove". Most of the places shown are listed above. Quantity: 109 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander." Photographs numbered up to 112, but lack numbers 65, 66 and 69 (therefore 109 images in total)..

Date: ca 1968

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2886

Description: Includes transparencies showing a camping journey to Te Awaiti and Tora on the South Wairarapa coast, New Zealand. Photographed by Cyril Beavis circa 1968. Also includes transparencies showing a group of adults and youths taking a launch to Kāpiti Island, Kapiti Coast District, New Zealand. Photographed by Cyril Beavis circa 1968. Transparencies showing Kāpiti are continued at PA12-2887 to PA12-2891. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in March 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-82.

Date: 1930

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-094

Description: Motor launch and boat with outboard motor, photographed in 1930 by Robert E Wells. Other - Mokau River 1930. A day's outing to gather blackberries on the upper reaches of the river. I checked on this - it's true! 45 minutes for 1 person to fill a benzine tin (4 gallons). I was there - taking part [from photographer's inscription attached to back of photo] Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Question H.; Verso - centre - (The Rendezvous). This needs 1/4" trim off the right edge and then enlarge up to 1/2 plate (or 1/1 plate).; Verso - bottom centre - Robt. E. Wells, Mokau River, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 7.6 x 10.2 cm

Date: [ca 1960]

From: Goodall, Gladys Mary, 1908-2015: Scenic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-7756-1-019

Description: Pearl Harbour, Lake Manapouri, showing launches at anchor. Photograph taken ca 1960 by Gladys M Goodall. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Pearl Harbour, Lake Manapouri. N.Z.; Verso - bottom left - Photography: Gladys M Goodall. W.T. 31. Printed and published in New Zealand by Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 10 x 15 cm

Date: 1980

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to boats and boating, yacht racing and regattas]

By: Pelin Plans 2000 Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-BOAT-1980-02

Description: Sales catalogue lists plans for purchase in the following categories: Runabouts, cabin cruisers, racing /ski hulls, sailing cats, launches, dinghies, yachts, trailers. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 80 pages, 300 x 210 mm.

Date: [1928-1930]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-056

Description: Launch on the Mokau River with house in the distance, photographed ca 1930 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Eric Lewis cream launch. Ca 1928-1929. Mokau. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 11.2 x 15.7 cm

Date: [Circa 1930]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-050

Description: Photographs of large groups of people taken on tours run by New Zealand Railways, using rail and road transport. The album covers various trips taken by large groups of unidentified people, mostly in the North Island, and only as far south as Tokaanu and the Whanganui River. They travelled by rail, by road and by ferry. Very few of the photographs have captions, but several are labelled "Commerce trip", and include images of farming, ploughing, stock sales yards, and a large group of men picnicking around a hangi (p. 14). There are a few South Island views, including Lincoln College and Akaroa Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled "Tours Book B1"; 36.5 x 49.5 cm

Date: ca 1900

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

Reference: PAColl-7081-66

Description: A small launch with a party of eight men on board travelling down the bush lined banks of the Mokau River. Photographer was W E Spenser. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1930

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-1-080

Description: Motor launch and boat with outboard motor, photographed in 1930 by Robert E Wells. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Mokau River 1930; Verso - centre - A rendez-vous just below the Old Mine at the place called "The Mine Clearing" at that time overgrown with huge, luscious blackberries. To fill a 4 gallon tin, took only 45 minutes. I was there and tried it. This is the boat which I had to row 1 mile, upstream and downstream, each day, in 1927/28 (until I bought an outboard motor) for the sum of 6d per day - "ferry allowance" for taking 2 boys to and from school each day! And, out of this princely sum, I was required to keep the boat in good repair. When new ribs were required I went into the bush, cut down rata vines, sawed them down the middle, and then rivetted them in place! Those were the days! Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 20.1 x 25.3 cm