Places

Date: 1936 - 1937

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1057/1059

Description: Shows ceiling plan, block plan with surrounding streets marked (Commerce Street, Railway Street, Quay Street); first floor plan, elevations, sections, details of rebated sill and window. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, and ink drawing on dressed linen, sizes varying

Date: [1930s]

From: Union Steam Ship Company :Photographs of Ship Cove, Milford Sound, and Pacific Islands

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-D-0117

Description: Unidentified group including a ship's officer, taken at Cook memorial at Ship Cove. Probably a party of people on a Union Steam Ship Company excursion to Queen Charlotte Sound on RMS Monowai. Photograph taken by W H Raine, ca 1930s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 43 x 58 cm Provenance: Donated by Union Steam Ship Company, Nov 1970

Date: [Circa 1935]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA1-f-059

Description: Album of publicity photographs, taken by unidentified photographers, chiefly in 1935 At the beginning of the album there are a large number of photographs of the buildings, and crowds at a race meeting at the Trentham Racecourse. (See article by O.N. Gillespie in New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue, 12, March 1, 1935). The album has many publicity photographs, designs for railway advertisements and posters, all showing the advantages of travel by rail. The advertisements include methods for travel savings: `Buy travel stamps. Travel savings N.Z.R. 1/-, 2/-, 2/6, 5/-, from railway stations & booking offices'; also `Start saving to-day for your trip away...'. Other posters advertise cheaper travel in the off-season, including summer holidays at the Hermitage, with low combined rail and motor fares" as well as advertising full season trips to tourist destinations. There is one photograph of a programme [?] for "New Zealand Authors' Week, 1936. Souvenir". Near the start of the album there is a large group of views at Flock House, agricultural college at Bulls. They show pig farming, dairy cows, sheep, lucerne for pasture and vegetable growing (See New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 12, March 1, 1935); and in one of these Lord Bledisloe is bending down examining pasture (See New Zealand Railways magazine, Vol. 9, Issue 11, February 1, 1935) There are a few individual and group portraits, but only one or two are identified. Interior photographs of Union Steam Ship Company luxury liners Rangatira and Aorangi, are shown as individual pictures, as well as in a montage (published in New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, issue 4, July 1, 1935). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscelleous 5'; 41 x 59 cm

Date: 1936 - 1949

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm); Croker, Basil, active 1936; Clarkson, Harvey, active 1930s

Reference: Plans-92-1060/1063

Description: Includes ground floor plan, elevation of entrance doors, stairway and lift. Ink drawing shows floor plan, sections and elevations of the single storey Union Steam Ship building in Blenheim. Plans are by Haughton & McKeon, Basil M Croker (Auckland), and Harvey Clarkson (Blenheim plan) Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, and one ink drawing on dressed linen, sizes varying

Date: [1930s]

From: Union Steam Ship Company :Photographs of Ship Cove, Milford Sound, and Pacific Islands

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-D-0007

Description: Groups of people sitting and standing on an area of lawn close to the water's edge. One woman has a Union Steam Ship Company towel over her shoulders. Some people are wearing bathing costumes. The photograph was probably taken at a Union Steam Ship Company picnic in Queen Charlotte Sound by Wellington photographer, W H Raine, in 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 43 x 58.5 cm Provenance: Donated by Union Steam Ship Company, Nov 1970

Date: [1930s]

From: Union Steam Ship Company :Photographs of Ship Cove, Milford Sound, and Pacific Islands

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-D-0116

Description: Unidentified group taken at Milford Sound. Probably a party of people on a Union Steam Ship Company excursion to Milford Sound on RMS Monowai. A group of thirty-three adults and children are on the lawn outside the Government Accommodation House. The RMS Monowai can be seen in the background. Photograph taken by W H Raine, ca 1930s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 43 x 58 cm Provenance: Donated by Union Steam Ship Company, Nov 1970

Date: [1930s]

From: Union Steam Ship Company :Photographs of Ship Cove, Milford Sound, and Pacific Islands

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-D-0114

Description: View looking down onto the deck of the RMS Monowai. A launch is approaching with passengers. The Lion and Pembroke Peak can be seen in the background. Probably taken during a Union Shipping Company excursion to Milford Sound in 1930s by photographer William Raine. Other photographs possibly taken on same occasion at PAColl-D-0115 & PAColl-D-0116 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 57.5 x 42.5 cm Provenance: Donated by Union Steam Ship Company, Nov 1970

Date: 1936

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1123/1128

Description: Includes detail of reinforcement, 1936; floor plan, elevations and sections; details of office furniture including manager's desk, cashier's desk, typiste's desk and chairs, electric lighting plan. Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawings on tracing paper and dressed linen, and diazo prints, sizes varying

Date: [1930s]

From: Union Steam Ship Company :Photographs of Ship Cove, Milford Sound, and Pacific Islands

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-D-0113

Description: Groups of holidaymakers on launches and dinghies. The RMS Monowai is in the distance. Boys in bathing costumes are on the jetty to the right and a man is swimming in the immediate foreground. Mitre Peak is in the background. The photograph was probably taken during a Union Steam Ship Company excursion to Milford Sound, by Wellington photographer, W H Raine, in 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 43 x 58 cm Provenance: Donated by Union Steam Ship Company, Nov 1970

Date: [1930s]

From: Union Steam Ship Company :Photographs of Ship Cove, Milford Sound, and Pacific Islands

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-D-0115

Description: Unidentified group taken at Milford Sound. Probably part of a party of people on a Union Steam Ship Company excursion to Milford Sound on RMS Moniowai. A launch full of passengers is anchored near the shore. Mitre Peak can be seen in the background. Photograph taken by W H Raine, ca 1930s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 43 x 58 cm