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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: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-224

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1947. Duck shooting at Lake Ellesmere; sign of the Pick and Shovel at Gabriel's Gully; disabled soldiers in wheelchairs watching a horse race; first aid clinic; locomotive having its tender filled with coal at Paekakariki; Herekino State Forest; Lake Wakatipu; The Chateau; Mount Ruapehu; Vogeltown Bowling Club, New Plymouth; Youth Travel Association party at Waiouru; rugby referees examinations held in Wellington (G R Penhale & D Chant); Hilton Thomassen and Jimmy Black of Taneatua Bowling Club, Whakatane (tallest & shortest players). House moving (Dr H B Berney's surgery, Masterton); Horsa Glider home and houseboats (England); Silver Jubilee display of sewing done by Correspondence School pupils held at Central Library, Wellington; English family building their own home; Les Curtice sounding the Last Post; Rehabilitation Committee meeting; R J Jacobs & C O Bell laying a wreath at the Cenotaph, Wellington (view of shops in lower Molesworth Street in background). Series of photographs taken at Ruatoki - Jim Merritt (Native Department supervisor), Rev Rangi (Maori Battalion padre), Takerau Tamerau (paramount chief of Tuhoe) and others. Series of photographs relating to the Post Office training school courses. Named participants included K R Murray, G H Glozier, T J Nixon, H McLachland, R W Hundy, D C Mundy, L W Palmer, H C Waterhouse, A J L Hamilton, B Story, R Innes, T Collins, A S Beck, R Cleary. Courses included engineering, morse code, switch board operators, automatic exchange switches; dismantling and testing telephones, etc. Helicopters (United States); Naseby (children's fancy dress parade); Tekapo; Country Library Service (librarian-driver Evelyn Franklin of Waikato, Coronation Library at Little River, and bus at Gropers Bush); Series of photographs relating to the Government Home Aid Scheme and day in the life of employee Edna Chandler. WAACS for welfare work in Japan - Subaltern J N Bullard & Junior Commander W M White; Pat Pysden and Pear Hunt; on parade (Ruth Ransfield, Margaret Bown and Doris Dempsey); Quartermaster-Sgt M V Wilson and P Cronin; Yvonne Trainor. Hine Hopu (carved guardian on Hongi's Track); Thomas Burn's statue in The Octagon, Dunedin; Young woman planting cauliflowers at Waimate farm; deerstalker's camp in Woodgrove district, North Canterbury; boy scouts in France; hikers on road to Milford Hotel; hydro-electric generating plant at Karapiro; holiday makers on board launch in Marlborough Sounds; Deepwater Cove, Bay of Islands; speed boat racing at New Plymouth; Pelorous Bridge; mayor of New Plymouth Mr Gilmour at civic reception held in Pukekura Park. Opening of the air service between New Zealand and Canada - Captain I N Holyman, managing director of Australian National Airways receiving first mail from Hon F S Hackett, Postmaster General; J A C Allum, Mayor of Auckland and Captain P Taylor. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-226

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1949-1950. Sculptures exhibited at Royal Society of British Artists Winter Exhibition; block of flats in Finchley Road, London used as secret headquarters of the Rear-Admiral of the Coastal Forces; Peter Scott, painter of wild birds and director of Severn Wild Fowl Trust, England; Faberge ornaments made for Russian royal family on display in London; Anderson family shearing-gang, Rangitoto district near Te Kuiti; goat herd belonging to A Miller of Riccarton (reputed to be only goats in NZ milked by machine). Rev B O Plumb of St Mark's, Opawa, Christchurch; Mr & Mrs E V Gaw who built their own house at Spencer Park; Ted Scott (journalist & boxer) with his mother and sister Mrs A Francis; L M S Bruce (formerly headmaster of the Cathedral and John Connon School for Boys, Bombay) on arrival in NZ with his wife; John Barnicoat of Wellington on return from trip to Tibet; Lyndhurst School; aftermath of fire which destroyed the Lake Hotel, Taupo on 29 Dec 1949; Waitotara Valley where Oswald Palmer crashed his Tiger Moth. Official function for Hon E B Corbett, Minister of Native Affairs, at Puniho Pa; Gower Wingfield of Kaeo, Northland and wife and daughter Myra on his return from Cook Islands where he was formerly the official dentist; Royal Artilleryman Major N W Routledge with his wife (formerly Miss P Grigg) and two children on arrival in Wellington to take up an appointment with NZ Army; Rev A P Stanley at St Columba's Church, Point Howard; old kerosene lamp post in garden of E J Thompson, Arrowtown. Mr & Mrs John Ellis and family on arrival in NZ; wedding group (Mr & Mrs Claude Flemming); Judge J S Blake-Reed; Sam & Ron Sinclair (Sanders Cup veterans); Peter Wilkinson of City of Christchurch Pipe Band; 1887 Te Aute scholars (T W Wills, Toito Poata, P H McDonald); William Williams; Samuel Williams; Harry G Wright of Central Otago (aged 90); girls who attended the Junior Red Cross camp held at Wellington; custom made car built by W Hulme Kerr; RNZAF training centre at Tairei air station near Dunedin; group photo of officers of No 1 Elementary Flying Training School, Taieri aerodrome, Mosgiel. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1925 - 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-036

Description: Photographs of Tongariro National Park, 1925 to 1947, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of Chateau Tongariro, Mount Ruapehu, Mount Ngauruhoe and Mount Tongariro. Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: Apr 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, Apr 1949 Scene at the civic reception held in Dixon Park, Greymouth to honour the visit of HMNZS Kaniere, one of the new frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Cromwell racecourse; action photos from Ngaruawahia's annual regatta (includes young Maori boy eating watermelon); Maori deputation visiting Parliament to discuss the question of liquor licence in the King Country (includes portrait of 78 year old Mrs A Huirama); exhibition held in Christchurch of Japanese wood-block colour prints compiled by K R Moshelm, a former director of Army Education and Welfare Service in Japan; Bailey bridge on Lewis Pass Road, near Glen Wye Station; photo of family of Gilbert Edwards, a Dunedin claimant to the fortune of a Welsh stonemason who immigrated to New York and died in 1789 (story in Free Lance, 20 Apr 1949). Makara Radio Station (series of photos including A F Smith, officer in charge of Makara Radio Station); Star Rugby Club, New Plymouth 60th jubilee celebrations and members of the 1919-1939 decades in the grand parade held at Rugby Park; limestone caves recently discovered at Lake Te Anau (Cave of Swirling Waters). Final section of the main highway between Auckland and Te Kuiti under construction (Mayor of Te Kuiti, K W Law watching final load of metal chips being laid); composting of Masterton's refuse; construction of the road at Belmont Gully and Haywards (Hutt Valley); repair of fault in the Auckland-Suva cable by Government steamer Matai; Union Steam Company's vessel Waitemata en route to Vancouver rescuing converted Fairmile launch Mahurangi in Pacific Ocean near Rarotonga. All Black captain Fred Allen, with former All Black Trevor Berghan and Mrs Berghan in fancy dress costume; Chinese crew's arrival in Auckland to take over the Union Steam Ship Company's vessel Kaikorai at Port Chalmers (sold to Hwah Lee Steam Ship Company of Shanghai) Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1929-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-172

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1946-1959 Boat harbour on Waikato River, Taupo; Acacia Bay Fishing Lodge and Acacia Bay, 1959; Huka Falls; Geyser Valley, Wairekei; trout fishing near Dutchess Pool, Kowhai Flat, Tongariro River; aerial view of the Chateau Tongariro; Mount Ngauruhoe (some of the mountain erupting); Mount Ruapehu; family roped together on the slopes of Ruapehu (John Pascoe photograph) Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1926-1941

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-185

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1929-1940s. Includes a number taken at the opening of the hunting season at Gisborne. Other clubs include Manawatu, Waikato, Waimate, Rotorua, Hawke's Bay, etc. Individuals identified include - Miss M Fraser, Miss B McKenzie, Miss D Hansen, Mr & Mrs H B Johnstone & daughter Miss J Johnstone, Miss Molly Orbell, Sylvia Orbell, Mrs C L Orbell, Mr E Kerr, Miss L Cartwright, Mrs K Hargreaves (Kakahu), Miss Annette Orbell (The Levels), Mrs W D Orbell, Miss Patsy Harper (Four Peaks), H J C Harper, R Macdonald, J Selby, J J Waller, T Dickinson, E Cooney, R J Waldie, J F Cooney, J V Cooney. Photograph of Hawke's Bay Hunt Club assembled in front of J Lowry's home `Oreka'; Waikato Hunt Club at `Wartle', a Matangi homestead Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1885]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-041-01

Description: Ngongo on the shores of Lake Rotoaira photographed by the Burton Brothers in about 1885. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 19.7 x 14.2

Date: [ca 1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-100858-F

Description: Boat harbour, Lake Taupo, photographed circa 1940s, possibly by William Hall Raine. A waka is in the foreground. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-190-01

Description: Pastoral view of of Hautu Prison farm near Turangi photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1950. Published in the New Zealand Free Lance 20 May 1936. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 19.6 x 14.5 cm

Date: ca 1910

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-7171-42

Description: Original caption reads: "Skips of coal reach the screening sheds from the Renown Mine. After grading it is loaded into Railway trucks for transport." Photograph taken in Huntly, circa 1910, by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.2 x 20.7 cm

Date: Date unknown

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-C-002236-F

Description: Rangiriri bridge over the Waikato River, date and photographer unknown. Note on back of file print reads "At Rangiriri where the motorist crosses the Waikato on a 20-pier bridge, the river is wide and shallow" Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: ca 1937

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-151271-F

Description: Children competing in the calf club championships, Morrinsville. The mayor, Mr Osborne, is about to present the trophies. The young girl third in from left with her jersey calf is Gwyneth Margaret Davies from Kereone District School. Her mother, Gladys Irene Davies, stands by the door of the truck, with her hat at an angle. Two along from Gladys Davies, wearing a dark patterned dress, is Mrs McIntyre, standing by her husband. Taken by an unidentified photographer in about 1937. Source of descriptive information - Names of Davies and McIntyre families, and the historical note, from Library client. Gwyneth Margaret Davies won a cup for the Morrinsville Calf Club 1937 Best Reared Calf. The McIntyre family were still living and farming in the Kereone area in 2011. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Date unknown

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-050006-F

Description: Looking from the Chateau Tongariro, over buildings alongside, at Mount Ruapehu. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Aug 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8163-26

Description: View showing a mother and two children standing beside a convertible car on a dirt road before a bridge crossing, looking up towards Pohaturoa, a rock outcrop rising 245 m above the Waikato River, south-west of Atiamuri. The rock is planted with forestry pine. Photograph taken in August 1955, by an unidentified photographer for the Free Lance. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - File / Photo [... illegible]; Verso - top centre - 1/12 x 3 1/14 Friday 5/8/55; Verso - bottom centre - Published 17 Aug 1955 Page 34 [publication stamp]; Verso - bottom centre - REMARKABLE ROCK FORTRESS. "As we approached Atiamuri there came into view the old Maori stronghold, Powhateroa [sic: Pohaturoa], round whose feet the river runs. Pine forest clothes its cone-shaped sides and out of them, as though the top had been pushed up by a giant's finger, rise sheer cliffs capped again with pines. `Like the head of a Fijian warrior' was the description we heard." [Glued-on clipping from original publication] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.7 x 16.8 cm

Date: 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-171

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1946-1960 Construction of dam at Karapiro (Karapiro hydro-electric project, 1946); Lake Karapiro looking towards Maungatautari; D S Borrell's farm & Sharon Borrell with Jersey calf at Tauwhare, 1957; crowd at Royal Waikato Show held at Claudelands, 1956; Robert's Farm, Rukuhia; lake at Hamilton; Waikato River at Hamilton and other places in Waikato region; Awakino Gorge road tunnel; Cambridge; Waitomo Caves; Temple View; W F Mulgrew's farm at Te Aroha; aerial view of Kawhia (Whites, 5571); state houses at Hamilton, 1946. Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 24 Jan 1932]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8163-32

Description: View of Thames township taken from the base of the war memorial, showing the Thames river in the background. Photograph taken in January 1932, by an unidentified photographer for the Free Lance. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - 24/1/32 / Panoramic View / of Thames taken from the / base of the war memorial Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.7 x 16.6 cm