Places

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: 1921-1924

From: Hume, Keith Hamilton, fl 1974-1982 :Albums featuring Ohura and Rotoiti and timbermill

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: PA1-o-232

Description: Views of the timber industry around Lake Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty Region; Includes scenes of the Rotoiti Timber Co.; timber transportation at Mourea (spelt Morea in album), and Lake Rotoiti; the Ohau Channel; Okataina (spelt Okatina in album); and Ngongotaha. Taken in the 1920s by John Martyn Hume and a staff photographer of the Auckland Weekly News. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18 x 30 cm

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA7-25-18

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1906-1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour; Gungall, Arthur Frederick, 1863?-1927

Reference: PA1-o-372

Description: Photographs of various factories and businesses in the Taranaki District, taken circa 1906. They include interior and exterior views, and employees. Most are taken by unidentified photographers, but the Hurrell Brothers images were taken by Arthur Frederick Gungall, of Hawera. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Taranaki District Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Taranaki District. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: ca1912

Reference: PAColl-7678

Description: Collection comprises: Two photographs of Mauriceville West, showing the dairy factory, and a cow & bulloch, probably on the property of Alfred Forsberg, taken ca 1912-1915 by Benjamin Murgatroyd. Two photographs of Falkner's sawmill at Kaiparoro, taken ca 1906 by Robert Wallis of Eketahuna. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1880-1922]

By: Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Lennard, Leslie Maurice Wyn, 1903-1988

Reference: PAColl-0398

Description: Photographs by Edward Le Grice of Piha and Huia showing the coastline, streams and the houses of early residents including Le Grice's boarding house. The collection also includes photographs of sawmills and bullock teams hauling kauri logs. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copies of original prints Provenance: Donated by Maurice Lennard, Pukekohe, 1983

Date: 1939

By: New Zealand. Fisheries Research Division

Reference: PAColl-2206

Description: Most images show derelict sawmills in the Marlborough, Hawkes Bay and Horowhenua districts. One series of negatives relates to the burning of a hulk on Ward Island - possibly the William Manson which was beached and set on fire 25 May 1939 Arrangement: Negatives accessioned at 1/4-22616-F to 1/4-22662-F Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: film negatives

Date: 1950

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-034288-F

Description: A20067 Probably the premises of Lane & Brown, Totara North (from Helen Smith, 7 August 2000) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [Circa 1900s to 1910s]

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

Reference: PA1-o-338

Description: Album of photographs taken in the Otago and Southland Regions, by unidentified photographers. All the locations are well identified. Some of the images are related to railways, including railway tunnels (e.g. The Caversham Tunnel when under construction circa 1909), and the Hunts Road Tunnel; the Clutha Railway Bridge; the Wingatui Signal Box; the Balclutha Railway Station, railway yards, and sales-yards; railway barns; D-class engine (New Zealand Railways steam-engine No. 355); the Owaka Express; and bush tramway tracks, one sawmill typical of small mills in the Catlins area. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, including sunsets, stormy days on the coast near Dunedin, evening at Ocean Beach, storm clouds at Lawyer's Head, and "By beach and sand-hill". There are a large number of views of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and the Winter Gardens, and the Dunedin Reservoir. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, gold lines down spine and across corners; 19.5 x 26.5

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: ca 1864-1900

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7275

Description: An engraving of Napier in 1864 done in 1894 (annotated); two similar views of Napier from Bluff Hill (one annotated); a large sawmill with houses around ca 1890s (annotated); Shakespeare Road, Napier ca 1863; Hastings Street looking towards Bluff Hill with London House on the right ca 1863; further up Hastings Street looking towards the hill (annotated - very faint image); postcard of Port Ahuriri and Roadstead ca 1900 (part of SM & Co series); men working on Pukemoki Quarry; and Port Ahuriri showing the spit taken by Muir & Moodie (annotated). Some of the images have annotations in the same handwriting (these are indicated) and others are described on the reverse of the file print as "copy negatives from an enlarged print". Arrangement: Negatives as 1/2-002924 to 002932 and 002960 Quantity: 10 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1906

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: 1/4-023407-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 11 Dec 1979

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

Reference: EP/1979/4353-F

Description: Original caption reads: "Forestry spokesman for the Environment and Conservation Organisations (ECO) Mr Guy Salmon unfurls a symbolic unsigned cheque made out to Minginui Sawmills Limited for $500,000 on the steps of Parliament yesterday. "Conservation organisations have been pressing the Government to extend such a loan so that the Minginui mill could afford to install machinery to process exotic (pine) timber at its Whirinaki State forest site. "The cheque, representing a Development Finance Corporation suspensory loan, was presented to the deputy Opposition leader, Mr David Lange, yesterday afternoon as part of a conservation protest at Parliament. "The organisations say that a suspensory loan would in effect provide a guarantee to continued employment to the Mingunui village residents." (Evening Post, 12 Dec, 1979). Evening Post photograph. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1921-1922

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-001

Description: Album (2), 1921-1922, Mangahao Hydro-electric scheme, images 59-122. Album showing the development of construction of the Mangahao Hydro-electric power scheme, with all aspects, including service roads, the sawmill supplying timber for buildings and other requirements of construction, work camps, the tunnels for water pipes. See also Album (1) 1916-1921, Tararuas & Mangahao Hydro-Electric construction, images 1-58 (at PA1-o-009).

Date: [Circa 1900-1909]

By: McArthur & Company

Reference: PA1-o-283

Description: Album containing photographs of New Zealand scenes, none of which have captions, all taken by an unidentified photographer. There are nine loose photographs inserted in an envelope inside the front of the album. Several of these are scenes of the Franz Josef Glacier; one of a lake with the Southern Alps on the right in the distance; and one of a river bed with the moutain range in the background. Three photographs are of Maori groups. The first shows a large group of young women in the foreground performing in front of a meeting house. They are wearing long white gowns, with dark coloured sashes across their shoulders. Behind them, the heads of men and women, most wearing hats, are visible. The other two images are of a small group, in both of which a kaumataua is seated in the foreground wearing a cloak. The first one shows one man in European dress, a man in soldier's uniform, three women and three children surrounding the kaumatua. The second one focuses on the kaumatua, with three children alongside. The areas seen in the album are possibly in the Hamilton area, one of a ferry passing under a bridge, one of a timber mill, and a number of bridges. Several show the exterior and interior of a church. An ivy-covered lychgate leads to the church with a shingle roof, and high, narrow stained glass windows; the interior shows the main aisle leading to the altar. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover decorated with red poppies, entitled `Photo sketches'; 14.5 x 16.5 cm

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-195

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Many of the images show various aspects of logging in Piha and Karekare. Views include the Piha Tramway, bush railway inclines, scenes of lumbermen cutting down kauri trees and cross-cutting felled trees, transportation of logs by bullock teams and horse-drawn rail wagons, the Piha timber camp and mill and men at everyday activities in camp buildings and in their workmen's huts. Other sections of the album show views of Petone, and Godber's family (his wife, Laura Godber, and two children, Phyllis and William (Bill)); views of the central North Island; farming in the Mendip Hills (Canterbury); and views of Trentham. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 101 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26 x 30 cm

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Werren, Douglas John 1930-2007: Transparency slides

Reference: PA12-11320

Description: Transparency slides of timber industry related scenes taken by Doug Werren, circa 1950s to 1960s. Includes images of the site of a timber mill during demolition, the logging of native timber [Ruapehu District?], logging truck owned by Dominion Timber Company (Owhango), and a MG magine glazing cylinder for paper (bound for the Kinleith Paper Mill on a George Dale & Sons truck). Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Wackrow, William Henry, 1869-1948

Reference: Pan-1941-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over mill buildings and stacks of timber at Lake Rotoiti on the left. There is a row of workmen's cottages beside the lake. Bracken-covered hill in the centre foreground and a view of a railway line across a paddock below leading out onto a wharf on Lake Rotorua. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Rotoiti Timber Co's Mill on Lake Rotoiti; Photographer's title on negative - centre right - Lake Rotorua; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Wackrow. Rotorua; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 [in list formation]; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] No. 39 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 107.7 cm

Date: Circa December 1958 to April 1959

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

Reference: PA12-8796

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand between 1958 and 1959. This sheet of slides shows hills at Holmridge farm; volcanic ridge at Tokatoka; sawmill and the Tokatoka volcanic rock in the distance; Dargaville township, April 26 Anzac Day procession with band rotunda visible, an old pier on the Wairoa River at Dargaville, cattle sales; a pile of wood blocks at a sawmill; Woodhill showing Peter Hildreth's farm country; sheep on the road beyond Helensville; Kaipara River at Helensville; scenes relating to the flax industry at Waihue showing cabbage trees in a swamp, views of the Northern Wairoa Flax Co. mill showing the buildings, flax in swampland, the flax mill, washed flax fibres, and the manager of the mill holding flax fibres. Slides on this sheet are numbered 604-627. Arrangement: None of this particular sheet of slides were removed to Mr Williams' representative collection on New Zealand for his lecture series when he returned to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints