Places

Date: [1930-1931]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-055

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways circa 1930 to 1931 by unidentified photographers. Some subjects have images dotted throughout the album, including the arrival in New Zealand of Lord and Lady Bledisloe in March 1930; the arrival in 1931 of Sir Francis Chichester after his crossing of the Tasman in his bi-plane; various activities at the Hillside Railway Workshops, including a group portrait of staff; and various images relating to Railways ticket offices, advertisements for railway tours and excursions, photographs of tickets, and an advertisement for house removals by train. A series of views show athletic sports including running races, hurdles, cycle racing, and long-jump. There are scenes showing the international sportsman Dr Otto Peltzer winning the 880 yards, handicap race at Wellington, on 8th February 1930. Team sports are shown in two views of a women's hockey team playing on the field below Victoria University College, and a series on rugby football, including views of the 5th test between Britain and New Zealand at Athletic Park in 1930. Railways head office picnic, including races by men, women and children (p 35-36), and a huge crowd at Paekakariki Beach, picnicking and swimming (p 70). Official occasions include scenes of the Empire and Australian Farmers' Tour, a view of the cortege at Sir Joseph Ward's funeral outside Parliament Buildings, the opening of Massey Memorial, and various views of unidentified railway officials in personal and group portraits, including one of the members of the New Zealand Railway Commission. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book. C1'; 36 x 52 cm

Date: 1934

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

Reference: 1/4-032320-G

Description: The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe (left) and Lady Bledisloe (right) with an unidentified pilot in front of the Wellington Aero Club Waco biplane ZK-ADE at Rongotai aerodrome, Wellington. Photograph takewn by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [1934-1935?]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-052

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. The only identifying information is a few pencilled notes giving some locations, but there are no captions identifying people. There is a large sequence showing events surrounding the first celebrations marking the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6th February 1934 attended by Lord Bledisloe. He had purchased the site, and donated money for the Treaty House renovations in 1932. The celebrations brought 10,000 Maori to Waitangi. The images show huge crowds, haka parties, various iwi performing, and parties of dignitaries including Lord and Lady Bledisloe, Joseph Gordon Coates and George William Forbes. Other scenes with Lord Bledisloe show him visiting the Waitaki Hydroelectric power station. Views of New Zealand include Government Tourist Bureau accomodation houses including those at Waitomo and the Hermitage (Mt. Cook); accomodation houses at Helensville and Parakai with interior and exterior views, and showing activities available (spa pools, games such as croquet, golf, and bowls); anglers standing by swordfish they have caught; skiing and ski lessons; and waterfalls. Industrial and agricultural views show dairy cows, citrus groves, the Kiwi Bacon Factory, printing presses, and race courses. A number show people at the beach at Mount Maunganui, and a large group picniking. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B3'; 40 x 58 cm

Date: March 1934

From: Wellington Historical and Early Settlers Association :Photographs

Reference: PA9-073

Description: Photograph of Lord and Lady Bledisloe with a group outside a meeting house at Whakarewarewa, taken March 1934 by an unidentified photographer. Mita Taupopoki is standing in between Lord and Lady Bledisloe. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Bledisloe March 1934; Backing board recto - top centre - 15. The Early Settlers & Historical Association of Wellington (Inc); Backing board recto - centre - Lord & Lady Bledisloe March 1934? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.6 x 21.8 cm, on mount, in frame 29.5 x 34.6 cm

Date: [1930-1934]

By: Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst, Viscount, 1867-1958

Reference: PA1-f-015

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific taken 1930-1934 by Lord Bledisloe, comprising views of Government House (Wellington), Queen Charlotte Sound, Treaty House (Waitangi), Kawau Island, Whanganui River, Pipiriki,Jerusalem, Galatea, Ranana, Ruatahuna, Whakarewarewa, North Cape, Deep Creek (Nelson), Lake Waikaremoana, Mt Ngauruhoe, Lake Rotoroa (Nelson), Franz Joseph Glacier and environs, Rarotonga, Pago Pago, and Tongatapu. Also included are portraits of Mita Taupopoki, Honi Te Heu Heu, Guide Rangi, and Lord & Lady Bledisloe; a Cutty Sark seaplane of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force, the interior of a Ringatu meeting house at Ruatahuna, Maori groups, swordfish and trout fishing, and a scheelite mine at Deep Creek. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The album was presented by Lord Bledisloe to the Duke of Gloucester in Christmas 1934, during his visit to New Zealand.

Date: [Circa 1931]

By: New Zealand Railways; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927; Gilmour, John Henry, 1892-1951; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PA1-f-056

Description: Mainly publicity photographs for New Zealand Railways, most taken by unidentified photographers, though there are several portraits taken by S P Andrew (Stanley Polkingorne Andrew); also a number of images near the beginning of the album have a pencilled note which says "Mr Hinge's negative". There are a number of photographs of advertisements and posters for New Zealand Railways, including one promoting safety at railway crossings. In this scene a young woman is holding up a banner "STOP! Safety first", wearing a hat labelled "Stop", a sash labelled "Safety first" and wearing a skirt with the image of a car crash at a railway crossing. At the end of the album there are several photographs of postage stamps. Several photographs were taken at the opening of the Auckland Railway Station. Then a number show luggage or goods being loaded onto the interislander ferry; and near the back of the album a series showing racehorses, with one view of a horse being lifted onto a ship in a crate. A large section shows the Wellington rally for Lord and Lady Baden-Powell at the Basin Reserve in 1931, and later in the album views of them laying a wreath at the Citizen's War memorial (Cenotaph). Pages 38-43 contain 20 black and white photographs of water colour paintings by Thomas Ryan, from the 1890s. The subjects are mostly lakes and mountains in the South Island, including Lakes Mahinapua, Wakatipu, Te Anau, Wanaka and Manapouri; Teremakau River, Bealey River, Teremakau River and Clinton Valley; and in the North Island Lakes Rotorua and Tikitapu, and two of the Uruwera. On page 64 there is a photograph of a barred window. In front there is an ice-axe, a pair of skis, a fishing rod, 2 rifles, and a lidded straw picnic basket. It seems to have been used as the basis for a New Zealand Railways poster advertising outdoor life in New Zealand (see p 65). There are a number of pages of portraits of children, several of which have been formed into montages of images. None of these are identified. Some portraits of dignitaries involved with New Zealand Railways are identified with surname, but many are not identified at all. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C2'; 36 x 52 cm

Date: December 1931-1935

From: Downard, Ida Christina, 1913-2006: Photographs and correspondence with family

Reference: PA1-o-1939

Description: Photograph album of Girl Guide camping trips and other activities in the Wellington Region, December 1931 to 1935. Compiled by Ida Christina Downard, who is possibly the photographer. Includes annotations identifying locations and dates as well as some notes identifying people and historical context. Annotations in black pen were made at time of compilation while annotations in blue were possibly made at a later date. Camps include a Ranger camp at an Akatarawa site (December 1931 to January 1932), the Easter Ranger camp at Lowry Bay (1932), and two larger camps at Trentham (December 1932 to January 1933, 1934). Photographs show camp sites (including tents), Trentham Racecourse buildings, activities (including a garden party, guides setting off for a picnic, a prayer circle, and a human birthday cake performed by Brownies), and a variety of informal group and individual portraits of unidentified guides. One series of group portraits show St Paul's Mangaroa guides with the Lady Bledisloe Cup. Lady Olave Baden-Powell, her husband, and their two daughters are photographed during a visit to Trentham. Other events include a "stocking trail" with cars on Kelburn Viaduct and District Sports competition at [Wellington?] Botanic Gardens. One photomechanical print shows crowds on wharf farewelling Lord Bledisloe in 1935, with Girl Guide Rangers in the right of the image [from newspaper?]. Inscriptions: Album page - top left - I. Downard | 93 Standen St., | Karori W. 3. Ida Christina Downard was a member of St Paul's Girl Guides of Mangaroa in Upper Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 63 silver gelatin photo prints and one photomechanical print. Physical Description: Photograph album with off-white textured cardboard cover tied with string, 21 x 26 cm

Date: February 1934

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

Reference: Pan-0083-F

Description: Image taken on the first Waitangi Day, held in February 1934. A day of celebrations after Lord Bledisloe donated and dedicated the Treaty House and grounds to the nation. He and his wife attended the celebrations and are seen sitting under an open sided awning on the left. Huge crowd of Māori and pākehā (most seated) on flat grassed area. Tall trees left and right. Pyramidal construction about 3 metres high near centre. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.6 x 35.7 cm

Date: 1935-1935

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001237-F

Description: Formal portrait of Lady Alina Kate Elaine Bledisloe. Taken by Herman John Schmidt between 1930 and 1935. Lady Bledisloe often signed her name as Elaine Bledisloe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: between 1930-1935

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001240-F

Description: Formal portrait of Lady Alina Kate Elaine Bledisloe. Taken by Herman John Schmidt between 1930 and 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1935-1935

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001242-F

Description: Formal portrait of Sir Charles Bathurst Bledisloe and Lady Alina Kate Elaine Bledisloe. Sir Bledisloe is in uniform. Taken by Herman John Schmidt between 1930 and 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1930-1935]

From: Patterson, G :Photographs of Jean Batten

Reference: PAColl-0889-2

Description: Jean Batten with Lord and Lady Bledisloe at Rongotai Airport, Wellington, circa 1930-1935. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1935-1935

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/1-001229-F

Description: Formal portrait of Sir Charles Bathurst Bledisloe and Lady Alina Kate Elaine Bledisloe. Sir Bledisloe is in uniform. Taken by Herman John Schmidt between 1930 and 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: between 1930-1935

From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district

Reference: 1/2-132947-F

Description: Lady Alina Kate Elaine Bledisloe, photographed by Herman John Schmidt between 1930 and 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: January 1934

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

By: Kingsford, Alfred Reginald Bellingham, 1891-1987

Reference: EP-NZ Obits-Bledisloe, Lord-02

Description: Lord and Lady Bledisloe standing with a gathering of Maori on Picton foreshore at the presentation of a large totara chair and a pounamu for the Waitangi Treaty House. The organiser of the presentation, Te Ari Pitima, is seated at the front. Photographed by A R Kingsford of Nelson 18 January 1934. Standing left to right: Ted Hemi (with headband), Pongi Hemi, Lord Bledisloe, Peter Macdonald (with white hair), Hariata Huntley, Dolly Tonga (just behind Lady Bledisloe), Lady Bledisloe, Tete Arthur, George Tonga, Poi Love (immediately behind Nancy Riwaka), Nancy Riwaka, Tom Riwaka (behind and to the right of Nancy Riwaka), Puhi Huntley, Joe Riddell. Kneeling: Eddie MacDonald (Huntley) (to left of Lord Bledisloe), Lemon Holder, Doris Riwaka, Peki Riwaka, Buna Riwaka (with taiaha), George Riwaka. Sitting: Rachael and George Huntley (part shown), Te Ari Pitama, May Horrey (Tonga), Lily Matangi, Vera Arthur, Kathy Riwaka, Kelly Tonga Photograph published in the Evening Post 19 January 1934. Originally identified as at Waitangi. Corrected after contact by family of Hariata Huntley, who is also in the photograph. Names supplied by a researcher. Lord Bledisloe was Governor General of New Zealand from 1930 to 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20 x 15.3 cm