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New Zealand places

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Manuscript

Main, Colleen Patricia, fl 1974-1994 : Otago pioneers, the John Dewe family of Tokomairiro

Date: 1974

By: Main, Colleen Patricia, active 1974-1994

Reference: MS-Papers-1356

Description: Includes information on his descendants Source of title - Transcribed John Dewe came to Port Chalmers on the `Blundell' in 1848 and settled in Milton in 1850. He became Resident Magistrate; active in establishing Anglican Church. Ordained in 1874, was vicar of Clyde and elsewhere in Otago. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (42 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

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Fluoridation files (Levin to Napier)

Date: [1957-1966]

From: Fuller, James Ferris (Brigadier), 1913-2001 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6167-04

Description: Comprises regional files kept by Fuller while at Defence HQ relating to the fluoridation issue (see entry under Place) Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box).

Manuscript

Research notes on civic heraldry

Date: 1965-1967

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 82-213-21

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Bethune album

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-013

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm

Manuscript

Monica Ethel Kidd - Fac et Spera (Do and Hope); the Mathesons of Fourpenny

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-045

Description: The essay details the Matheson family of Sutherlandshire, Scotland; The marriage of James Matheson and Helen Murray; the voyage to Otago on the `Agra' in 1858; life in Dunedin and Tokomairiro (Milton); life of their children; and life of the children of their eldest son George Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Johnston, I F H (Mr): Postcards of New Zealand

Date: [ca 1890s-1910]

By: Johnston, I F H (Mr), active 1971; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-6334

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes. Includes views of women on the swing bridge over the Catlins River ca 1900; swans on Catlins Lake; Mt Ngauruhoe erupting; the main street in Milton; Gore Railway Station; the Hapuawhenua Viaduct on the main trunk line; the New Zealand rugby football team which toured Great Britain in 1905; the botanic gardens in Dunedin; a view over Mount Eden, Auckland showing the Maori fortifications and the firm of C Lynch Cash Grocers in the foreground; a two storey house boat or ferry at Ohura; Moffat's and Kolberg's homesteads in Pounawea; a re-touched view of the track through Pounawea; a souvenir of Port Molyneux showing Millionaire's Corner, Ka Ka Point and Kororo Creek; the Blue Bath, Rotorua; Princes Street, Dunedin showing a tram and Jacobs Tobacconist on the corner; Lower High Street, Dunedin with the premises of Charles W White & Co on the right; families out on St Clair Beach; two boys having a race in the rockery of the Botanic Gardens, Dunedin; North Island Main Trunk Railways at Ohakune; the Presbyterian church in Palmerston with the Clark Sunday School hall next to it; fell engine pulling a train up the Rimutaka Incline; Guide Eileen at Whakarewarewa; and Smith Bros general store at Owaka with their delivery cart outside. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Prints also at PAColl-5800-36 and PAColl-6001-18 Quantity: 24 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcard. 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Postcards Provenance: Donated by Mr I F H Johnston, Clutha, 1971

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F. W. Niven & Co :Toko. Farmers' Club, grand annual show! ... / F. W. Niven & Co., Lith...

Date: 1887 - 1977

By: F W Niven & Company; A H & A W Reed (Firm)

Reference: G-403

Description: Poster advertising an agricultural show in Toko or Tokomairiro, later known as Milton, Otago. Depiction of horses, cattle, poultry, sheep, a pig and farm implements, including a windmill above text listing location, committee, list of prizes and rules. Reproduced from an original poster in the Hocken Library, Dunedin Other Titles - Tokomairiro Milton Farmers' Club Extended Title - From: The New Zealand Poster Book / compiled by Ellen Ellis. Wellington, 1977. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 403 x 256 mm (block mounted)

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Interview with Henrietta Paskell

Date: 16, 27 January 1993; 4, 9, 16 February 1993 - 16 Jan 1993 - 16 Feb 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Marsh, Cath, active 1993; Paskell, Henrietta, 1898-1997

Reference: OHInt-0148/21

Description: Henrietta Paskell, born in Gore 1898, is the youngest child of Frederick and Mary Henke. She attended primary school at Waipahi and Arthurton schools leaving to work as a domestic and cow-milker for a number of people. At about age 16 Hettie began work as a waitress at the Commercial Hotel and then later worked in the Club Hotel. After her marriage to Fleming Paskell, they went to work as married couple in Waikaka Valley. They moved to Manuka Creek and then to Milton where Hettie bought and ran a store for a number of years. She remained living in Milton until she moved to Holmdene where she resides now. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Balclutha Interviewer(s) - Cath Marsh Venue - Balclutha Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018562-018566; OHLC-010001-010005 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6429 and OHDL-000755.

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Milton, Otago Catchment Board

Date: [ca. 1965-ca. 1975]

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-E/535-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd of Milton, Otago Catchment Board, and surrounding countryside. No information inscribed on item, which is in two pieces. Original enclosure also labelled 'Otago Catchment Board' Quantity: 1 b&w copy transparency/ies. Physical Description: Film positive, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size)

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[Programmes and tickets for athletics meetings and sports clubs. 1982]

Date: 1982

Reference: Eph-A-ATHLETICS-1982

Description: Includes: ANZ Bank New Zealand Colt's & Junior Women's Track & Field Championships. Newtown Park Wellington, 13-14 March 1982. Souvenir programme New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Canterbury Centre. New Zealand Senior Junior and Women's Track & Field Championships. Queen Elizabeth II Park, 6-7 March 1982. Programme Trans-Tasman Trophy. Children's athletics. Auckland versus New South Wales. Mt Smart Stadium, January 1982. Programme Trans Tasman Trials 1982 at Mt Smart Stadium on Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th November. Programme New Balance / Brian's Place Sportswear. Road relay. Handicapped Milton to Dunedin race, Saturday 15th May 1982. Programme Westport Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club. Mahar Cup between the Amateur Athletic and Cycling Clubs of Marlborough, Nelson, West Coast and Buller. Combined 50th jubilee programme. Victoria Square Westport, 30 January 1982. Programme Quantity: 6 album(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying under 250 mm. Provenance: Some items donated by Athletics New Zealand in 2013.

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Milton Pipe Band; Milton memories

Date: 9 Nov 1948

From: Radio New Zealand Sound Archives Mobile Unit sound recordings

Reference: OHC-007631

Description: Items performed by the Milton Pipe Band. James Armstrong Stewart and James Bridgeman Gray of Milton discuss place names, buildings, businesses, the flour mill and other aspects of Milton's history. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).

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Hitchon Brothers, Bacon Factory, Milton

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Hitchon Brothers (Firm)

Reference: Pan-2099-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large brick factory "Hitchon's Bacon Factory" in the centre of the image. A group of eleven factory employees, men and women (most wearing striped aprons), are standing outside. A road runs in front from left to right, with houses along the roadside. Hills in the background on the right. Two vehicles to the left of the factory, a car (number plate: NZ87-014) and a Hitchon's delivery truck. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Hitchon Bros. Milton. 3 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - 9 9 9 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 108.3 cm

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Panorama of Milton, Otago, New Zealand

Date: 1926

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

By: Potter, Leslie William, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1854-F

Description: Panoramic view of the township of Milton looking across flat farmland including a large field of haystacks. The township is the the middle distance, running across the image. Hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Milton, Otago. New Zealand - No. 629; Marginal notes on negative - L.W. Potter. Milton. 3 B&W. Title: Panorama of Milton, Otago, New Zealand. 18.3.26 (from Brickworks Hill); Marginal notes on negative - 8 8 8 8 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 109.5 cm

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Industrial

Date: 1975, 1977, 1979-1980, 1982, 1995

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11665

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The first of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

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Industrial

Date: 1972, 1977, 1979-1980, 1982

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11667

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The first of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

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Tokomairiro Agricultural and Pastoral Society :Centennial summer show, Milton Showgroun...

Date: 1965

By: Tokomairiro Agricultural & Pastoral Society; Bruce herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Tokomairiro

Description: A schedule of categories for prizes including: horses and cattle, sheep and lambs, home industries, schoolwork and needlework. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 46 pages, 207 x 133 mm.

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McIntosh album 12

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1901]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-296

Description: Photographs, probably taken by G W Barltrop. Scenes in the first part of the album are of the South Island, mostly around the Dunedin area, and further south, in Invercargill and Bluff. There are two panoramas, one of Port Chalmers and one of Lumsden. Most are landscapes, but a few show groups of people, including five young girls in the Dunedin Botanical Gardens, and a man driving a horse and buggy at Manuka Creek, with two young women sitting beside him, and a third woman standing by the horse's head. A graveyard scene is a close-up view of two headstones, one for Catherine Louisa Schaw (widow of John S Schaw), who died in 1874 aged 71. North Island scenes show a church at Levin; and views of the countryside, a bullock pulling a laden cart, and at the Rimutaka Summit all taken on a train journey. Group portraits include one of a large family group, with two young boys in the foreground with a cricket bat and cricket pads; and two large groups of men and women associated with the Missions to Seamen. One image show a plaque erected `In memory of twelve officers and seamen who were drowned or died from exposure, by the wreck of the Barque Lizzie Bell near the Oeo River, July 24 1901, erected by members and friends of the Missions to seamen, Wellington, New Zealand'. There is also a photograph of the wreck of the ship Antiocco Accame, which was stranded at Katiki Beach, Otago, on 31 October 1901. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

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The Aspros and Pagonis families in front of the Milton Fish Supply

Date: 1940

From: Greek Orthodox Community of Wellington and Suburbs Inc : Photographs of Greek life and culture

Reference: PAColl-4924-062

Description: The Milton Fish Supply, managed by the Aspros family. From left: Mrs Aspros and child, Mrs Pagonis, Mr Pagonis and children. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.

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World War, 1939-1945. New Zealand. Aerial photographs of New Zealand defence installations

Date: 1938-1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-056

Description: Aerial and other photographs of the following: Hy A.A. site, Clarence Street, Auckland (Series 3/3); Moturoa Island, Bay of Islands showing general views of gun positions and camp (Series 13/6); Petone Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 16/18); Hokitika Drill Hal, 1938 (Series 8/7); Huntly Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 8/8); Kauri Point, Auckland showing bomb stores and magazine area, 1943 (Series 11/2); Takapuna Fort at Narrow Neck (Series 14/2); Hobsonville aerodrome showing general views, bomb stores, Hy.A.A. position (Series 8/2); Linton Military Camp showing general Kairanga area (Series 12/2); Harington Point, Otago Peninsula showing battery position (Series 8/1); Maraetai Bay, Sounds Defences showing camp, landing jetty, gun position, magazine, water reservoir (Series 13/3); Mount Pleasant showing general view including Lyttelton Harbour and Hy.A.A. position (Series 13/8); Paeroa Drill Hall and army officers accommodation, 1938 (Series 16/19); Mototapu Island showing army camp site and magazine (Series 13/15); Massey Memorial, Wellington, 1942 showing Mt Crawford Prison, Scorching Bay, Seatoun area (Series 13/7); Masterton showing USMC Solway (Camp No 14) and Memorial Park (Camp No 15) (Series 13/10); Morrinsville Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 13/12); Milton Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 13/11); Levin Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 12/3/1); Nelson showing A.A. Golf Course camp, gun positions, army office, drill hall and band room, general view of Nelson aerodrome and old magazine in Gov. Grounds (Series 14/3) Quantity: 110 b&w original photographic print(s).

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