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Date: 1867

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-008-2

Description: The artist on the back of a horse hired at Masterton to visit Whareama (near Castlepoint) on the bank of the Whareama River, in conversation with two men on the opposite bank. The other men are telling Hawkins that he will need to make a lengthy detour in order to cross the river safely. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 98 x 205 mm

Date: 1981

From: Evans, Malcolm, 1945- :["Edna" cartoons published] 1989.

Reference: H-670-001

Description: Shows Edna's husband rowing a dinghy with a prize bull in it over flooded paddocks, while Edna is made to swim along side the boat. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. The first Edna cartoon ever published. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A4 size. Physical Description: horizontal A4 photocopy

Date: [1900s-1960s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-31

Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; railway bridges; visits of parliamentarians Richard Seddon and Michael Joseph Savage; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; waterfall; floods; Lyell: and pancake rocks, Punakiaki. Photographs taken 1900s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1913-1945]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MSO-Papers-5714-4

Description: Comprises reconveyance deed between Daniel Riddiford and William Hort Levin for land in the Hutt (1870); roading and drainage plans, Waipawa (1913); AA London route map; maps, Saint Jean and St Julien (France) and El Daba (Egypt) (1940s); page from the `Times' with military honours including Daniel Riddiford for the Military Cross (29 Apr 1918); and plan relating to ownership of Awaroa Station and flooding, on Ruamahanga River Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1961

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-406

Description: Shows a man in his backyard with a spade. He is shoveling mud from the path which leads to the washing line. The rest of the backyard is also covered in mud. He is talking to his wife is standing who is on the back door step with a mop and bucket. Refers to floodwater damaging gardens in Upper Hutt. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, 205 x 255mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1973

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-134-394

Description: This cartoon features the collapse of the bridge at Bulls in a flood. Minister of Works and Deputy Prime Minister Hugh Watt, some other men and a police officer are inspecting the wreckage. One of the men suggests that Leader of the Opposition Jack Marshall could give some advice as he's so keen on bridge building (regarding the South African Springbok rugby tour). Extended Title - Bulls Bridge Collapsed. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 310 x 368 mm

Date: 1948-1958

From: New Zealand. Ministry of Education :Photographs from the Ministry of Works Library

Reference: PA1-q-939

Description: Flooding on the lower Clutha River showing the water covering surrounding countryside, flooded towns, damaged flood control structures, erosion of farmland, drains, land restored after flooding, and land in need of development. The bottom right hand corner is signed "B W Peryman, OCB, March 1959. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1920-1945]

Reference: PAColl-6962

Description: 15 images including: three of young men practising life saving skills in the sea with a rope on a winch; two of girl guides helping at a kindergarten; two of East Street, Ashburton showing the different businesses parked cars and trees opposite; a car broken down in the middle of a ford; flooding on the road to the Harihari Hotel, with cattle being driven along it; a timber camp of five tents in the bush; a house at Kennedy's Bush on Banks Peninsula ca 1920; decorated boats on the Avon River with crowds on the banks watching and Ward & Co factory in the background; Cashel Street ca 1920 busy with trafic and pedestrians; and the Free Lance offices on The Terrace, Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059480 to 059494 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) film. 12 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1939, 1946-1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-048

Description: Photographs of disasters and natural phenomena made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of fires in Taupo (20 February 1946) and Hastings (13 February 1946); floods in Hokitika (24 April 1947); floods and storms in Lower Hutt and Wellington (February 1947); land slips; train accidents; a mountain rescue (15 January 1947); and recovery of a truck from a river (7 December 1948). Photographers include M C Lysons and Frank H Preddy. Quantity: 46 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 12 April 1977

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

Reference: EP/1977/1288-F

Description: Mrs D Garrett of Marsden Street, Lower Hutt, shovelling mud deposited by flooding. Photographed by and Evening Post staff photographer on the 12th of April, 1977. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [1880s-1960s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-32

Description: Collection comprises street scenes; railway trains and railcars; floods; fires; brass bands, gold sluicing; Lyell; Franz Josef Glacier; Otira Gorge; Arthur's Pass and Greymouth. Photographs taken 1880s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 92 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900s, 1950s

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-03

Description: Greymouth scenes, including floods, ship Mapourika, and departure of troops to South African War, taken ca 1900s by James Ring. West Coast rugby matches taken 1950s by L A Inkster. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1915-1919, 1970s?]

From: Dangerfield, Leonard Joseph, fl 1988-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9308

Description: Comprises: Photographs of early Petone and Wellington, in particular: Wellington Municipal Abattoir, Ngaraunga; Priest & Son hairdressers & tobacconists; Peace Arch in Jackson St, Petone, 1918-1919; members of Petone Cycling Club; Albert Ramsden and his wife in an automobile, 1915. Also includes elevated view of Mokau Colliery, Taranaki. Shows Hutt Valley floods, possibly 1976. Views of submerged roads, wrecked cars, landslips in Stokes Valley and damaged houses there and in Belmont. Also shows people cleaning up debris and mud. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donated by Leonard Joseph Dangerfield, Lower Hutt, 1995 Transfers: Transfers - From Published Collections.

Date: [ca 1924]

Reference: PAColl-7008

Description: 8 views: HMS Hood in Wellington harbour 1924; man punting a waka through the flooded streets of Wanganui with a woman standing in the prow; a lot of people coming over the bridge into the Wanganui floods, some on a waka; the premises of Park, Davis & Co fruit and produce auctioneers; men getting into two small sailing dinghies on the Whanganui River; people boarding a paddle steamer on the Whanganui River; two men, three children and a dog outside a meeting house; and a page from a book with a map of the Bay of Islands. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-097254 to 097261 Quantity: 8 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: Circa 1900s

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

Reference: PA1-f-003

Description: Album of black & white photographs taken during the early 1900s, showing geological formations in New Zealand. They include images of the Banks Peninsula, Sumner, Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Lyttelton Harbour, and the Halswell River, in several sequences in the album; flooding of the Koputaroa Stream at Levin, on 4 December 1906; Lake Horowhenua; Paekakariki Coast; the Wairarapa, including Orongorongo Valley, Wharekauhau Stream, Wainuiomata, Palliser Bay, Mukamuka Valley, Eglinton's Hut; Tongariro National Park area, including Waiouru (in which the stables of Crowther & McCauley coach services are visible), the source of the Waikato River at the gorge and waterfall of the Mangatoetoenui Stream; Mount Ruapehu, crater lake, the Waihohonu Hut, Te Heuheu Peak, Flounder Glacier and Waikato Glacier; Mount Ngauruhoe, slopes and craters and the source of the Ohinepango Stream; Mount Tongariro, Ketetahi Springs and Ketetahi Hut, craters and crater lakes including the Red crater, and Blue and Green Lakes

Date: 1948-1955

From: Wellington Regional Planning Authority : Records

Reference: 75-156-049

Description: References to flooding of the Hutt River in 1955 at Manor Park and near St Patrick's College, Silverstream Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2004

From: Secker, Alma Williamina Morrison Langslow, 1923-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9797

Description: Photographs of the Wairarapa landscape taken by Alma Secker in 2004, including instances of flooding at Donald's Creek, Featherston, in February, June, September and October, and a few images relating to flood prevention. Includes images in and around a house and garden probably Alma Secker's property. Also includes images of morris dancers outside the old court house in Featherston, 26 June 2004. Also includes a few images of (alpacas? llamas?) peacocks and emus, probably taken at Staglands Wildlife Reserve, Akatarawa Valley, Upper Hutt. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints (and corresponding negatives at 33mm-94301 to 94330) are in chronological order. Prints PAColl-9797-001 to 9797-027 taken February 2004. PAColl-9797-028 to 9797-054 were taken about June 2004. PAColl-9797-055 to 9797-080 were taken about September 2004. PAColl-9797-081 to 9797-106 were taken about October 2004. Quantity: 107 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler prints

Date: 1964-1966

From: Tuhi-Herewini, Evelyn :Slides of Sir Bernard Fergusson's visit to Ruatoki, 1964-1966

Reference: PA12-1512

Description: Sir Bernard Fergusson's visit to Ruatoki, Public Health Nurse, and scenes in the Whakarau area. Quantity: 24 colour copy transparency/ies 35mm slides.

Date: 1894

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Notes. Cranmore Lodge, Littlebourne, Dunedin. [Sketchbook, ca 1894]

Reference: E-033-1-008

Description: A rough sketch showing a group of men working on a railway line, ankle deep in water, with a house beyond and a hill to the left marked as Nokoma Terrace Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, page size 110 x 180 mm

From: Allan, Ruth Mary (Fletcher), d 1958 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0205-064

Description: Box containing odd notes. Includes notes on schools, William Fox biographical notes, floods, earthquakes, Pakawau coal etc. Mostly from the `Examiner' Quantity: 1 folder(s).