Places

Date: [1957-1958]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-37

Description: Comprises notes on the earliest ethnographic map of part of the Wellington area (with map); maps, Maori pa sites, Te Awamutu area; map, Heathcote-Sumner area, showing location of Moa-bone Point Cave; anomalous adze; note and drawing by A Formison; map, Maori sites, Owhariu Bay; paper by Adkin, date and culture of the earliest people of the North Island; Maori place-names of Te Korokoro-Te Tuara-whati-o-Te mana area, Hutt Valley (with map); massve adze, from Te Kaha Point, Bay of Plenty; Arrangement: Notebook no 36 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1860s-1950s

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8066-01

Description: Three images of groups of veteran soldiers of the New Zealand Wars photographed outside Government House Auckland. Groups and portraits of people including Elsdon Best. Also Best's study and house "Mataimoana" at Highland Park, Wellington. One image of a Fijian man dating from ca 1880s. Unidentified monument, and scenic postcards of places in New Zealand which include Wairoa, Auckland, Howick, Devonport, Waihi, Taumranui, and the lagoon at Miramar, Wellington. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1600-1950s

Reference: PAColl-3691

Description: Arrangement: Negatives at F174862-83-1/2 Quantity: 22 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1957

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gmbm/Ki/1957/Acc.37534

Description: Maps of proposed trolley bus routes from Hamilton Drive to Miramar and Seatoun. The end of Sections 3, 4 and 5 on both routes are marked. Includes Evans Bay, college, the runway, Gas Company, Golf Links, Polo Ground, Miramar Park, Worser Bay. Streets are marked but are un-named. The first map includes apencilled caption title 'How the trolley buses get to Miramar and Seatoun - City Council proposal'. The second map is captioned 'Eastern Suburbs Joint Action Committee's proposal'. Notes include details of the meeting times. File 70229 Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil and printed collage mounted on paper, partly laminated, scale not given, 11.5 x 16.5 cm. on sheet 41.2 x 28.9 cm.

Date: 1948 - 1950

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

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-0958/0971

Description: Includes plans and elevations of powerhouse and pump room, fuel oil service tanks for oil burning plant, concrete seatings for pumps and fuel unit, details and elevations of retaining wall, plans and elevations of boilerhouse, and general arrangement of oil fuel burning and steam connections for new boiler. Quantity: 14 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprints, ink drawings, and diazo prints, sizes varying

Date: 1953

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Mi/1953/Acc.37583

Description: Map showing land to be made available to the Wellington City Council on the northern tip of Miramar Peninsula. The land is bounded by Kau Bay, Mahanga Bay, an army base at Point Gordon, the Domain at Scorching Bay, Mount Crawford Prison, the Post and Telegraph centre, and the Navy base north of Shelly Bay. Also shows land that may later be transferred to the Council south of Point Halswell, and a large area of City Council land south of Shelly Bay and including Shark Bay. Written on map: 26 cms. D/C BP Today 2nd Stamped on map: 20 Oct 1953 Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on tracing paper, scale indeterminable, 34.8 x 23.8 cm

Date: 13 May 2003

From: We call it home; State Housing history project

By: Nysse, John, 1929-; Nysse, Uinise Lolohea, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0872-13

Description: Interview with John Nysse, born in the Netherlands in 1929, and his wife Winnie (Uinise) Nysse, born in Tonga in 1951. John talks about coming to New Zealand in 1951, and working in the public sector as a records officer. Winnie mentions being brought to New Zealand in 1979 by her father and brother. Refer to their meeting at a bus station, and marrying in 1992 following Tongan and Catholic traditions. Talk about living in Thorndon for a time, and applying for a state house to get away from the motorway. Discuss their house (12 Fife Lane, Miramar) which was the first state house built in 1937, and feeling lucky to have it. Talk about the solid design of the house, its layout and it being sunny. Refer to the house as being right for a family, and discuss the garden where they grow vegetables and fruit. Mention financial hardship during the period of market rents and needing additional support from Income Support. Discuss being older parents, and recreational activities with their daughters. Comment on the 60th anniversary of the house when they were visited by prime minister Helen Clarke and housing minister Annette King. Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015652 - OHC-015653 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.48 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5620 (draft). Search dates: 1929 - 1951 - 2003

Date: [ca 1940s]

From: Franks, Cecil William, 1912-1990: Photographs, chiefly relating to Cecil Franks' service with the RNZAF as an equipment officer during World War II

Reference: PAColl-10233

Description: Photographic prints relating to Cecil and Eunice Frank's family life in Wellington and Franks' service in the Pacific during World War II, circa 1940s. Most photographs most likely taken by Franks. - Family photographs feature a series at [family?] house in Miramar. These show Cecil, Eunice, and another man in the vegetable garden. Wider shots in this series show the house and garden amidst other houses on the hills above Miramar [Moa Point?] and one image is a view over Lyall Bay to Cook Strait. Many images of gardening and Miramar house have corresponding negatives. There are also images of Eunice in the garden and in a living room holding a baby; in some images the baby is wearing a [christening?] gown. Further images of Eunice show her playing golf and wearing a RNZAF blazer. There are two images of Cecil playing cricket and one of him playing tennis [these are possibly taken overseas during the war]. - Print collection also includes a coast scene [possibly Wellington?] and another of city street under snow [Christchurch?]. - Images relating to Franks's war service include: RNZAF troops marching through Hagley Park, Christchurch, in the morning; troopship 'Empire Star' docked in Lyttelton (1939); Noumea scenes, including Franks in front of the officers' quarters at Camp Barnes with Lieutenant Summers of the United States Army (Jan 1943), at his beach tent, and in front of an unidentified wooden building. - Also contains three group portraits of RNZAF officers and airmen participating in the first (Jan 1940), third, and fourth (6 Apr 1940) instalments of the 'War Course - Technical Wing' course taught by Franks at Wigram Airbase. These prints have been de-framed and are mounted on board. The third course image has the signatures of the men and the fourth the printed names each individual in the photograph; both were presented to Franks. Further group portraits show the Wellington Methodist Harriers and an unidentified scene with a woman on a throne dressed like a queen, including soldiers with bayonets drawn [theatre production?]. - Some prints have Franks's annotations on the back. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1950-2000

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

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-104

Description: Photographs taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: [ca 1937-1950]

From: St Aidan's Church (Miramar, Wellington) :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10018-2

Description: St Aidan's Church boys' choir in procession, ca 1937. Clergy and other people grouped around a door. 35mm contact prints of St Aidan's Church choir in procession out of the building. Two group photographs relating to a Queen Carnival held on 11 August 1949. Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1931-1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-0614-2-27

Description: Photographs relating to the development of Rongotai airport, Wellington, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken by a range of photographers, between 1931 and 1958. Most of the images relate to the development of the airport in the 1950s and also include Rongotai College, the land reclamation in Evans Bay, and the Moa Point breakwater. Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1957

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries

Reference: MSI-Papers-0261-10/18C

Description: Plan of Miramar Peninsula (Whataitai/Hataitai) in Maori times from original drawn by Hector McLeod in 1957 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1952

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[39 copies of cartoons from 'Lodge looks at Wellington', Nevile Lodge, 1952]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: H-727-023

Description: Shows three Wellington suburban scenes: Karori with houses bordered by the cemetery, Miramar with houses beside an industrial area, and Eastbourne where houses beside the beach are threatened by erosion. Extended Title - Karori Miramar Eastbourne Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy

Date: 1955-1979

From: Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand : Records of the Wellington and Wairarapa Presbyteries

Reference: 88-017-08/11

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1926 - 1950

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-034-032/034

Description: Includes diazo print of a plan for British Imperial Oil Company Ltd, 12 October 1926; and floor plans, sections and elevations by Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners for Shell Company in December 1950. The two houses are not the same. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, and ink drawings sizes ranging up to 520 x 710 mm.

Date: 1957 - 1971

By: Patience, Maurice Balfour, 1915-1987; Meldrum, Robert Gillespie, 1907-1985

Reference: Plans-2006-024

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and section by R Gillespie Meldrum in 1957 for a church hall on Totara Terrace; and plans by Maurice B Patience in 1971 for alterations to the manse in Darlington Road. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil on diazo prints, sizes varying up to 640 x 750 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1507. - Material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Group 1507..

Date: 1950 to 1957

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

Reference: PA1-o-014

Description: Adkin album. Wellington (2), nos. 241-441. Views of Wellington taken between 1950 and 1957. Includes harbour swim event at Evans Bay, 26 February 1950; speedboat contests at Evans Bay, 4 March 1950; Patent slip and the Union Steam Ship Co's wharf at Evans Bay; tulip Sunday at the Wellington Botanic Garden (15 October 1950); Evans Bay Yacht Club yard in use as a temporary base for Solent flying boats with the Ararangi at a mooring; various views of reclamation undertaken by TEAL for their flying boat service at Evans Bay, and flying boats. Many of the images in this album are linked with Evans Bay, as Adkin was living at 424 Evans Bay Parade in the 1950s, several images showing the house. Views of Wellington from the Mount Victoria lookout and from the Tinakori Ridge Radio Station, in 1952; the old Robert Hannah residence in Boulcott Street; views of the inner city including the upper end of Ghuznee St., Upper Willis St., the Children's Dental Clinic. Image no. 313 shows a house at 214 Upper Willis Street (known as Restwyn), taken in Feb 1953, while image no. 434 shows the same site in January 1957 after the house had been demolished. Numbers of images show preparations and decorations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. There are many photographs of preparation for extending the airport at Rongotai, showing Moa Point Hill in course of destruction to provide spoil for reclamation, and also Rongotai Ridge, with one view of a house being moved from the ridge, also showing development of the breakwater at Moa Point, all taken betwen 1953 and 1957. A 1954 image shows an extension to the Town Hall under construction for municipal offices in December 1953; the Hinemoa at No. 1 Ferry Wharf; preparations and decorations for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in December 1953, including decorations at the Railway Station, Defence Stores Building in Featherston St., Kirkcaldie & Stains, James Smiths Corner, DIC, and the GPO. Image taken in March 1956 shows a house with turret on the corner of Upper Willis St and Aro St (a house which was shown in CD Barraud's painting of 1877). Views of yachting in the harbour, Ward Island, and the Eastbourne seawall. Outcast yacht is pictured.

Date: ca 1890s, 1930 - 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Robson, Edward Thomas, 1875-1953; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Bremford Studios; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Collins, L, active 1940

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-017

Description: Photographs of Canterbury region and Wellington city taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes views of towns, lakes, gardens and mountains, the Garden of Memories at Kaikoura, Lake Pukaki and Tekapo, New Years Day at Caroline Bay and the Dominion Museum in Wellington during the 1940 Exhibition. Photographers include E T Robson, Thelma Kent, William George Weigel and L Collins. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7762

Description: Phase 4 continued - 74. Distant view of Wellington from air; 75. Approaching Paraparaumu Airport. Phase 5; Wellington - 76. Wellington - looking across bay to Miramar and ocean; 77. Wellington - looking at new Rongotai Airport; 78. Lower Hutt, Southwood's fine, melted steel tube; 79. Port Nicholson, Somes Island, looking to Wellington from Gracefield; 80. Port Nicholson, Hutt River, reclamation work; 81. View up Hutt Valley; 82. View from Kelburn Park towards Government House and Hospital; 83. View from Kelburn Park across Lambton Harbour to Mt Victoria, Wellington's highest; 84. View from Kelburn Park across wharves to Petone, Lower Hutt; 85. Ohira Bay; 86. Siren's Rocks; 87. Tetrapods and beakwater in Lyall Bay, Rongotai airport; 88. From Mt Victoria across Evans Bay to Rongotai; 89. From Mt Victoria down to City proper; 90. Small craft in Lambton Harbour; 91. Near Evans Bay; 92. En route to Greytown (Wind); 93. En route to Greytown, eastern side of range. Phase 6 - Palmerston North; 94-96. Central Square gardens, All Saints church; 97. Tower and shell containing clock and chimes from P.O. damaged in earthquake of 1942. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1953-1993

By: Strathmore Park Townswomen's Guild

Reference: MSY-5312-5313

Description: Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, memorabilia and photographs, illustrating the activities of the Strathmore Park Townswomen's Guild, and to a lesser extent, those of the Dominion Federation of Townswomen's Guilds. Includes obituaries and lists of guild officers for each year. Source of title - Supplied The Strathmore Park Townswomen's Guild was founded in 1953 Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photos