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Miscellaneous - Some unidentified

Date: [ca 1920s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-223

Description: Photographs collected for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1920s-1950s. Some are unidentified. Includes: Wreckage of a small aircraft in the Tararua Range (5 photos taken by D F Jones, Tararua Tramping Club), undated; Invercargill wedding group - Sadie Reid Pollock married Lawrence Graham Smillie (with handwritten description), undated; Miller-Luke wedding (bride with her bridesmaid Nancy Luke and flower girl, Sophie van Asch), taken by Lovell-Smith, Hastings, undated; W G Perry (negative of sailor, presumed dead), undated; Miss Cross of Masterton, and young friend Nigel Hawke of New Plymouth, Jun 1949; Spragg (studio portrait of 58 year old soldier wearing military decorations), undated. Model of Australian cruiser H M A S Sydney, part of a naval display for War Saving Day in Martin Place, Sydney, 1940s; floral ship at Tauranga (and handwritten description); Mr & Mrs T L H Gibson, 50th wedding anniversary, Sep 1949 (C E Clarke, photographer, Waimate). Typed list of unidentified photographs; typed list of Winston Churchill related photographs A Jackson of Wellington College and his Guide V Williams on top of Mount Cook, 31 Jan 1929; W Errington Keville (General manager of Shaw Savill & Albion) with wife and daughter, 1949; dismasted yacht Astral being rescued during Wellington to Lyttelton Yacht Race, 1951; officers of Boys Brigade companies at training course held at Trentham, 1950s?; NZ Model Aero Club Dominion Championship at Christchurch, 1952; aerial view of Addington Racetrack; three grandstands at unidentified racetrack showing racegoers. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s) (also mss and ts material). 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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New Zealand personalities and events

Date: 1930-1953

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-146

Description: Photographs taken for publication in NZ Free Lance between 1930 and 1953. Includes two photographs taken at Bradshaw-Holland wedding, 1951; bride & groom (Jowett wedding); Sugeon-Commander R Buddle; Mr & Mrs W Sutherland, 1953; skaters at the opening of the Timaru Indoor Ice Skating Rink, Apr 1951; Jack Hurley's horse `Barras' competiting at Diamond Jubilee Show, Palmerston North, Nov 1950; `Lady Redwin' the best school pony at the Royal Agricultural Show, Auckland 1951 carrying John Davis, Charlie Swanson & Garrie Bowrie. Also delegates at meeting of the primary-producing groups, published in NZ Free Lance, 9 Oct 1946 (include N F Taylor of Waikato; H E Blyde of North Taranaki; E McCullam of South Taranaki. C H Crawford of Takapau, Hawke's Bay; P S Plummer of Waipawa; R W Kebbel of Wairarapa. W N Perry of Cambridge; A P O'Shea of Wellington; B V Cooksley of Wellington; W W Mulholland of Wellington). Also A H Ward (Director of Herd Improvement) and H W Davey of Hamilton, at Dominion Dairy Conference, 1949. Group photograph of Sunlight League Committee, 1940s; gymnastic display by PT instructors of RNZN, 1950. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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New Zealand & British events and personalities, etc

Date: 1938, 1946, 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-164

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance, 1938, 1946 and 1949. Includes: Collection of photographs taken at the Victory Parade held in London in 1946; sea rescue of NZ coastal ship `Awahou' near Fiji by `Degel', Nov 1949; group photo of members of No 41 Transport Squadron RNZAF who were co-operating with RAF in flying the Singapore-Hong Kong scheduled flights (taken at Officers Mess at Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong), 1949. Also: Memorial erected at Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch to victims of Ballentyne's fire, Nov 1947; Solent flying boat over Westport, Nov 1949; wool sale held in Concert Chamber of Auckland Town Hall - auctioneer's view of the buyers; Mrs Alan Grant's tulip farm at `Craigburn', Waimate; S W Moult with his 1898 model International tourer at Paraparaumu School Jubilee celebrations, Nov 1949. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Ships and shipping

Date: [ca 1909-1952]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-093

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, mostly made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1909-1950s. New Zealand related images include: Shell Oil Company coastal tankers Paua and Tanea; Union Steam Ship Co cargo vessel Karoon; ferry Arahua (includes original photographs); Orcades; barquentine Alexa ashore at Castlecliff, Wanganui, Dec 1910; damaged cargo vessels Broompak and Komata in Auckland Harbour after collision; wrecked hull of Pelotas ca 1911; Opihi being scuttled in Palliser Bay; steamer Indrabarah being repaired at Port Chalmers. Also: Grounded freighter Viggo Hansteen in Otago Harbour; remains of sailing ship City of Auckland at Otaki; iron barque Anglo-Norman at North Spit, Kaipara, 26 Sep 1914; NZ Shipping Company vessels Rangitane and Rangitoto; wreck of Wiltshire; In memorium postcard relating to S S Penguin (1909) with photo of the vessel and female members of the Toomer family who perished when the ship sunk; boat at landing place at Owens Mines No 1 (undated). Series of original black & white photos of the wreck of the steamer Progress that went ashore at Owhiro Bay, 1st May 1931, with loss of life. Includes photographs of overseas vessels (names not added to Name Field) Quantity: 31 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 6 album leaves with black & white photographic prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints

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Canterbury centennial celebrations & Canterbury related photographs; NZ Cadet Corps tra...

Date: 1920s-1950s

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-117

Description: Photographs, published (or considered for publication), in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1930s-1950s. Names and date of publication recorded on the back. Names of selected identified subjects entered in Name field. Includes group at Manawatu & West Coast Agricultural & Pastoral Association Show held at Palmerston North - Allan McDonald, renowned steeplechase rider; `Grannie' McDonald, in her day the foremost horsewoman in NZ; J C Ambury, light horse judge at the show; D D Wilson of Hamilton, pony judge; Miss Maggie Briggs, horsewoman; T J Martin, pony judge. Photograph published in NZ Free Lance, 17 Nov 1948, p 28. Series of photographs taken at Canterbury centennial celebrations of the fireworks display at Hagley Park. Procession of floats through Hagley Park - `London Pride' (London Society of Canterbury Ltd), `Callon Mill' (Canterbury & Westland Marlborough Clothing Union), `Trotting Sport' (Christchurch Trotting Club), `Centennial Bride' (Beath & Co), `Old Sydenham Windmill' (Vale & Co), `The Crown Jewels' (A & T Burt Ltd), `Queen of Flowers' (Canterbury Rose Society), `City Beautiful' (J Ballantyre & Co), `Birthday Cake' (Christchurch City Council), and decorated bikes. All published 19 Feb 1951. Series of photograph of NZ Cadet Corps training at Waiouru Military Camp; published 8 Feb 1950, p 29 Photograph of Tommy Solomon and friends Mr Thompson & Mr Lockett in a Christchurch street after Tommy Solomon was presented to the Duke of York; published 23 Mar 1927; original homestead at Purau (photo and article published 14 Dec 1938, p 82); avenue of poplars at Kaiapoi (cut down in 1939); jockeys J W Jennings & Alf Messervey, published in Free Lance, 15 Nov 1939 (p 59); house of the future on display at Canterbury Centennial Industries Fair, published 16 Aug 1950, p 26; Trentham Race Meeting, 8 Feb 1950, p 48. Group (including Postmaster General Broadfoot) at opening of the new automatic telephone exchange at New Plymouth; published Mar 1950 Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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New Zealand scenery - Wellington Region

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Holiday-makers arriving at Waiheke Island

Date: [ca Jan 1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-029

Description: Holiday makers outside the post office and store at Oneroa, Waiheke Island, circa January 1949. Taken by a New Zealand Free Lance photographer. Published in `New Zealand Free Lance', 26 January 1949, page 24. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - P 26/1/49, Waiheke Island Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.2 x 21.2 cm

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New Zealand scenes - Provinicial cities & country towns

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

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Peter Fraser, Walter Nash, and W J Jordan

Date: 1926-1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-187

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1926-1947. Peter Fraser - Labour candidate for Wellington Central (1931); several of Prime Minister Fraser during the war years; with Sister Nepia (Wairoa District Nurse) and A T Carroll, May 1947; with WAAFs S H Boyd & M C Bullard, 1944; receiving Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law at Cambridge University, 1944; with Miss Jean McKenzie, General Freyberg & Mrs Harold Kemp on arrival in London when he was made a Companion of Honour; gathering at Ruatoki where Fraser addressed the gathering, 1947; Hirini Heremaia performing a powhiri to the official party at the opening of Northland College, Kaikohe by Rt Hon Peter Fraser, 1947 Walter Nash - During the war years when he was Minister of Finance; as President of International Labour Conference at Philadelphia, 1944; Mr & Mrs Nash, 1938; Mr & Mrs Nash with F G L Bertram (deputy-director of Civil Aviation in British Air Ministry) on board Aorangi, 1936; Mr & Mrs Nash in their lounge with their two sons, 1936. W J Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand in London - MP for Manukau (1931); Mr & Mrs Jordan laying a wreath, May 1938; Mr & Mrs Jordan and family, 1936 & 1939; with his mother, Sep 1936; during the war years. Includes list of photographs Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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British war effort

Date: 1939-1942

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-192

Description: Photographs published in New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1942 to illustrate the British war effort in general and participation of women Includes group of women working on an aircraft at Wigram, Jul 1941 Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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New Zealand - Miscellaneous

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

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New Zealand - Miscellaneous photographs published in 1947

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

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New Zealand - Miscellaneous photographs published in 1950

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

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Photographs of racehorses, race meetings and personalities

Date: 1948-1958

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-150

Description: Photographs of race meetings, race horses and racing personalities, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, between 1950 and 1958. Includes: Series of photos re NZ Racing Conference testing for `doping', 1953 (and notes on testing); Melbourne Cup, 1952, 1953 & 1958; Trentham Racecourse doubles indicator (1950) & racecourse engineer L L Saggers; Trentham grandstand (1934); interior of totalisator at Trentham; Ellerslie Racecourse; race meeting at Riccarton; 101st NZ Derby Stakes winner (Sol d'Or); New Zealand Cup (W D Skelton & owners Mr & Mrs F C Pratt of Levin); Wellington Cup held at Trentham, Jan 1956; Grand National Steeplechase, 1958; Australian racing personalities. Quantity: 88 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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New Zealand cities - Christchurch & Dunedin

Date: [ca 1931-1949]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-203

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1931-1949. Dunedin - Rattray Street cable car, 1935; Leith Stream; lower Stuart Street; The Exchange looking south; Robert Burns statue in The Octagon; elevated view of St Paul's Cathedral and Dunedin Town Hall; The Centotaph, Queen's Gardens; Otago University, 1931; Dunedin Botanic Gardens; Otago Boys' High School; tram in Princes Street; elevated view looking north along George Street; panoramic view taken from Mornington looking north; aerial view over Mornington showing High Street School, Hawthorne Avenue, Kaituna Bowling Club etc; aerial view showing St Kilda and Forbury Park Trotting Club; Larnach's Castle (taken during the Baptist Union Annual Assembly); Otago Peninsula from above Macandrew Bay looking towards Port Chalmers; wharves at Port Chalmers, 1935; new wing of the Medical School, 1948. Christchurch - Captain Cook's statue, Victoria Square; group under a tree near Bridge of Remembrance; canoeing on the Avon River; Hagley Park; Christchurch Botanic Gardens; Band Rotunda; Cathedral Square; Avon River; Mona Vale; Captain Scott's Statue with Christchurch Club in background; Worcester Street Bridge; Rolleston statue and Canterbury Museum in Rolleston Avenue; Bridge of Remembrance; Christchurch World War One memorial, 1937; Christchurch Hospital, 1941; daffodils beside the Avon; aerial view showing Christ's College, etc; aerial view of Addington Racecourse, 1934 & 1937; aerial view of Christchurch Botanic Garden; Edgar Stead's home, Ilam; hillside suburb showing access path and stone retaining walls; pupils at Fendalton School during PE class, 1948; Kerr's Reach, Burwood, 1949 Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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New Zealand scenery - Auckland city and region

Date: 1945-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-170

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1945-1959 Views of Orewa; Waiwera; Milford Beach (with holiday makers & life guards); Oneroa Beach, Waiheke Island; beach at Devonport; children playing on beach; Westhaven & St Marys Bay taken from harbour bridge; lower Queen Street with Post Office building on left. Views of the Auckland War Memorial Museum and Cenotaph; Robert Burns statue in Auckland Domain; Yvonne Sloan, Auckland Training College student on the steps of the Museum; Tamaki Drive (includes Tamaki Yacht Clubhouse); Savage Memorial; Panmure Basin (& leisure craft at anchor); Parnell Baths & Judges Bay; donkey rides at Mission Bay; Cornwall Park (& view of One Tree Hill); views from Mount Eden, one looking towards Manukau Heads with Mount Eden in foreground, the other looking towards city and Rangitoto. Auckland Railway yards taken from Gladstone Road, Parnell, 1957; aerial view of Waitemata Harbour looking towards Firth of Thames (Whites No 42969); Morris Minor parked on scenic drive, Waitakere Ranges. Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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White Island

Date: 1929, 1936

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-035

Description: Photographs of White Island, Bay of Plenty, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1929 and 1936. Includes photographs of workers at the sulpur mines, a pohutukawa forest and aerial photographs of the volcano. Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Southland scenes

Date: 1927-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-143

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance between 1927 and 1951. Includes: Number of photographs relating to Port Craig; roadmakers huts at Puysegur Point, 1940; Waikaia (including Jimmy Hamer's house), taken by J D S Roberts, 1951; Howell Memorial, Riverton, 1937; Queen's Park & Anderson Park, Invercargill; Gore WWI war memorial, 1951; Bluff oysters; many aerial photographs of places (all listed in Place Field), including Mataura township and freezing works. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Houses and homesteads

Date: 1937, 1951-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-022

Description: Photographs of houses and homesteads, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, circa 1951 to 1957. Included are homesteads belonging to the Trolove, Pharazyn, Goulter, Vavasour, Dillon, Hunt, Bowie, Williams and Evans families. Also included is a photograph of an original sketch circa 1851 by Sir David Monro of `Bearcroft', Waimea West. Destruction by fire of Mr J H Grigg's dwelling at Longbeach near Ashburton in Nov 1937. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Motor car and speedboat racing - Overseas and New Zealand

Date: 1928-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-183

Description: Photographs (mainly from overseas) published in New Zealand Free Lance, 1920s-1950s Motor car racings events and personalities: Motor Derby held in Belfast, 1929; Rocket car invented by Max Valier, 1928; Major Segrave's British Sunbeam (1927) & Golden Aroow (1929); Sir Henry Segrave, 1929; J C Parry Thomas; G E T Eyston (British Empire Trophy), 1932 & Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, 1936; R Carraciola winner of Belfast Motor Derby, 1929; Benoist at British Grand Prix at Brooklands, 1927; Ray Keech (set world record at Daytona Beach, Florida); Peter Whitehead in his tailor-made `E' type E.R.A. car, 1938 & 1947; Mrs Victor Bruce (foremost British car racer); Miss M Dixon & Mrs K W B Sanderson, competitors in Monte Carlo Rally; Grand Prix de Monaco, 1933; Mrs Luff; Betty Carstairs & Gar Wood, 1931; Louis Gerard, winner of International Tourists Trophy at Donington Park, Derbyshire, 1938. Also: Major A T G Gardner, British motor-racing driver; Kaye Don, 1920s & his Silver Bullet; Bill Reynolds English midget car champ, 1939; Mrs G M Stewart (holder of women's world speed record) being presented with her trophy at British Racing Drivers Club, London; Captain Woolf Barnato; Berlin Avus motor racing track, 1937; Brooklands motor racing track; Verneuk Pan (near Cape Town). Also: Several photographs taken in 1930s related to Sir Malcolm Campbell, including his super Delage special car, 1928; Bluebird; Daytona Beach, Florida (including trophy presented by people of Daytona Beach, 1935); with his son Donald, 1935; Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah; with Barney Oldfield, 1932. New Zealand motor car racing - Jack Stewart of Otahuhu, winner of midget-car racing at Western Springs, who three years prior had lost a leg in a motor-cycle accident (article and photograph published in NZ Free Lance, 30 Mar 1938); New Zealand beach championship at Muriwai Beach, Apr 1950. Overseas speedboat records and New Zealand speedboat racing - `England II' at Loch Neagh, Ireland, 1931; wreck of England II driven by Segrave; Kaye Don who broke world water speed record in `Miss England III' at Loch Lomond; Miss Britain I & Miss Britain II; Empire Day II (Edward Spurr, 1939); Betty Carstairs, Oct 1928. Also New Zealand speedboats - `Bee Jax' & `Sea Horse', 1931; `Redhead'; `Miss Wellington', `Atom II' (Johnny Johnson was 2nd in Masport Cup & winner of Black & White Trophy); `Pelorus Jack' 1935 & 1938 at Picton; `Miss Syndicate', 1935; speedboat racing at Redcliffs, Christchurch, Dec 1930, and at Akaroa. Alan Woodman (President of Wellington Outboard Motor Club), 1934. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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