Places

Date: 1959

By: Aickin, Frances Ruth, 1900-1989

Reference: qMS-0028

Description: Gives short history of the Aickin family and especially of Dr T L Aickin, and his settlement in Auckland where he practised as a doctor Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (2 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (35cm, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1843-1957

From: Church of England in New Zealand Auckland Diocese : Church registers

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-01

Description: Contains registers for Ahipara, Mangonui Parish, 1920-1938; All Saints, Ponsonby, 1888-1916; Auckland Islands, Mar 1852; Diocese of Auckland, 1884-1899; Chapel of St Francis, Auckland City Mission, 1928-1950; St Judes, Avondale, 1910-1954; Awanui & Kaitaia (Maori), 1888-1954 (continued on next reel) Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-033923-F

Description: A2361 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

By: Auckland Racing Club; Avondale Jockey Club (Auckland, N.Z.); Bay of Plenty Jockey Club; Canterbury Jockey Club (Christchurch, N.Z.); Otaki-Māori Racing Club; Wanganui Jockey Club; Whangarei Racing Club; Wellington Racing Club; Wellington Trotting Club

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1920s

Description: Includes: Auckland Racing Club programmes: 26 April 1920 (with HRH Prince of Wales -blue silk bound); 10 November 1920. Auckland Racing Club programmes for season 1928-1929. Auckland Racing Club. Programme for Autumn meeting 1929. Avondale Jockey Club. Autumn meeting. 10 April 1920. Programme. Avondale Jockey Club. Spring meeting, 2 October 1920. Programme (PR-07-0350) Avondale Jockey Club. Autumn meeting. 2 April 1921. Programme (PR-05-0405) Avondale Jockey Club. Spring meeting. 24 September 1921. Programme (PR-03-0339) Avondale Jockey Club. Autumn meeting. 24 April 1922. Programme (PR-03-0339) Avondale Jockey Club. Spring meeting. First day. 23 September 1922. Programme. Bay of Plenty Jockey Club. 21 March 1923. Programme. Canterbury Jockey Club. Race meeting at Riccarton in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales. 15 May 1920. Programme. Dannevirke meeting. 15 December 1920. Card / programme. Otaki Maori Racing Club. Spring meeting. Second day 21 September 1925. Official programme. Takapuna Jockey Club. Season 1920-21. Programmes (PR-05-0405) Takapuna Jockey Club. Season 1927-28. Programmes (PR-05-0405) Takapuna Jockey Club. Season 1928-29. Programmes (PR-05-0405) Takapuna Jockey Club. Season 1929-30. Programmes (PR-05-0405) Wanganui Jockey Club. Spring meeting. First day, 10 September 1925. Programme. Wellington Racing Club. Summer meeting at Trentham. Second day 22 January 1920. Programme. Wellington Racing Club. Invitiation card to opening of new grandstands at Trentham Race Course. 20, 22, 24 January 1925, Wellington Trotting Club. 14 January 1925. programme. Wellington Trotting Club. 17 September 1927. Programme. Woodville meeting. 8 December 1920. Paper slip / programme, with accompanying ticket for Oete and Woodville handicaps. Whangarei Racing Club. Annual meeting at Avondale. 13 October 1920. Programme. Quantity: 26 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm. Provenance: Some purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007. Some donated by Mr J Yaldwyn in 1994. Processing information: Te Whaiti family loan, South Wairarapa Trotting Club 1927, combined into ATL-Group-00753.

Date: 1900 - 1903

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-SALES-1900/1903

Description: Includes: 1900: Catalogue of the Elderslie yearlings, the property of J F Reid, esq. to be sold by auction by Pyne & Co., at Tattersall's Horse Bazaar, Cashel Street Christchurch. 8 November 1900. 1902: T S Clibborn, agent. Catalogue of untried fillies and geldings, the property of J R Smith esq, Tucka Tucka ... at T Payten's Newmarket Stables, Randwick. 4 April 1902 (Sydney) T S Clibborn, agent. Catalogue of thoroughbred yearlings of 1902, all foaled in 1900, to be sold by auction at Payten's Newmarket Stables, Randwick, Sydney ... 1 April 1902. H Chisholm & Co. Catalogue of the Dorchester Farm yearlings foaled in 1900, the property of Mr Reginald Allen to be sold ... at ... Randwick, 3 April 1902. Catalogue of the Sylvia Park yearlings, the property of Messrs L D and N A Nathan, to be sold by public auction without reserve, 31 December 1902. 11th annual sale 1903: H Chisholm & Co. Dispersal sale of the Myrangle Stud, Cumnock, NSW, the property of Alec E Anderson, esq, without reeserve ... at their Randwick Stables, 23 November 1903. Catalogue Dispersal sale of Sylvia Park Stud, the property of Messrs L D and N A Nathan to be sold by public auction without reserve by the NZ Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd. 31 December 1903. Catalogue Quantity: 7 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 230 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Wellington Racing Club, 2006.

Date: 1987

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

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-715

Description: In a night-time scene a jockey is shown sitting on his horse explaining to the horse's irate owners that the reason he rode all over the track was because the moths prevented him from seeing. Refers to the fact that the Avondale Jockey Club experimented with night gallops. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on thin card, 320 x 480 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1987

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

Reference: B-145-072

Description: The cartoon shows Avondale Racecourse (Auckland) after a session of night trots, with all the lights blazing but with only a single jockey on horseback coming round the track. A punter or trainer is walking out a door on the right, reminding the jockey to turn out the lights. Refers to the shaky financial position of the racecourse, at the time and possibly to extravagant management, with a barrage of lights for the sake of one rider. Avondale Racecourse was nearly wound up but was bailed out. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 379 x 520 mm

Date: 25 February 1894 - 17 June 1896

From: Jackson, Ann Fletcher, 1833-1903 :Journals and Poems

Reference: MSX-7766

Description: This journal has a gap of a year following the last journal. It relates Ann Fletcher Jackson's life at Meliora (a small farm in Avondale, Auckland) with her family and fellow Quakers. The diary continues to be handwritten although in October 1894 Ann Jackson says that she has recieved a gift of a typewriter from England as, due to injury, she has to write with her left hand. Contained in the journal is a letter from Ann Jackson to 'My dear friend' dated 18 June 1894, and an undated newspapers clipping. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1924

From: Various photographers :Prints from panorama negatives

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-359

Description: Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - includes "No 2[?]" Arrangement: Original negative housed at P50 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Outsized panorama

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: Eph-A-SOCCER-1970s

Description: Includes: 1971: New Zealand Football Association fixture list. Hawarden-Waikari United Football Club. 50th jubilee. Programme / enrolment form. 1971. 1972: Christchurch United v Mt Wellington. 50th Anniversay Gillette Chatham Cup final. Basin Reserve Wellington, 2 September 1972. Souvenir programme (2 copies) New Zealand v New Caledonia. Basin Reserve Wellington, 17 September 1972. Souvenir programme 1973: North Island under-16 Tournament. Avondale College, September 3-7 1973. Programme (2 copies) Tauranga City Association Football Club. 2nd Division Northern League 1973. Programme (2 copies) Wellington v Stoke City. Basin Reserve Wellington. 13 May 1973. Programme (2 copies) 1974: New Zealand Secondary Schools Football Association. Auckland tournament. 26-30 August 1974 at Auckland Grammar School. Programme. Bristol Rovers v Wellington. Basin Reserve, 25 May 1974. Programme Lion Chatham Cup semi-final. North Shore United v Christchurch United. Queen Elizabeth Park, 17 August 1974. Programme Lion Chatham Cup final. Christchurch United v Wellington Diamond United. Queen Elizabeth Park Christchurch, 7 September 1974. Programme (Soccer weekly) Canterbury Junior Football Association. Saturday fixtures 1974. Programme. 1975: Air New Zealand Cities Challenge. Auckland v Wellington. Newmarket Park, 9 March 1975. Programme New Zealand v People's Republic of China. 3rd test. Queen Elizabeth Park Christchurch, 26 July 1975. Programme Otago Football Association. Otago v Indonesia. Caledonian Ground Dunedin, 5 October 1975. Programme 1976: Huntly Thistle. 50th jubilee. 3-5 September 1976. Programme. Lion Chatham Cup final. Trans Tours United v Eastern Suburbs. Queen Elizabeth II Park Christchurch, 4 September 1975. Programme NZ Football Association. Rothmans League fixture list. 1976 (2 copies) Wellington Football Association. Wellington vs Tottenham. Basin Reserve, 5 May 1976. Programme 1977: Petone Junior Association Football Club. "Operation Food Bar" at the Petone Club Gymn, Memorial Park, Bracken Street. 29 May 1977. Flier. Lion Brown soccer weekly 1977. Lion Brown series Divisions 1 & 2. Programme of fixtures 1978: NZ Football Association. Rothmans Soccer League fixture list 1978. Canterbury Junior Football Association. Saturday fixtures 1978. Programme. 1979: New Zealand F.A. World tour 1979. Booklet. England 'B' v New Zealand, at Orient F.C. (England). 15 October 1979. Programme. Norwich City v New Zealand. Carrow Road, Norwich, 22 October 1979. Programme. Dundee v New Zealand. Dundee, 29 October 1979. Programme. Quantity: 29 publications.. Physical Description: Sizes varying below 25 cm.

Date: 10 October 1896 - 22 July 1900

From: Jackson, Ann Fletcher, 1833-1903 :Journals and Poems

Reference: MSX-7767

Description: In January 1900 Ann Fletcher Jackson's husband Thomas Jackson died at Avondale. Prior to this, their son Harry Jackson died after a bicycle accident. Newspapers clippings relating to the details of the accident are pasted into the journal. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

By: Auckland Racing Club; Wellington Trotting Club

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1930s

Description: Includes: Auckland Racing Club programmes for season 1936-1937 Auckland Racing Club programmes for Autumn meeting and Great Northern Steeplechase and Winter meetings 1937 Dargaville Racing Club. Annual meeting to be held on the Avondale Racecourse. Second day, Monday 19th October 1931. Official card Takapuna Jockey Club. Season 1930-31. Programmes (PR-05-0405) Wairarapa Racing Club. Autumn meeting Tauherenikau Racecourse. 2nd day. Monday 21 April 1930. Official programme Wairarapa Racing Club. Summer meeting. Tauherenikau Racecourse. Second day, Monday 3 January 1938. Official programme Wellington Trotting Club. NZ Cup trial meeting. 29 October 1932. Official programme Woodville District Jockey Club. Autumn meeting 1930, Woodville Racecourse. Second day, 20 February [1930]. Official card Quantity: 9 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm. Processing information: Wairarapa Racing Club. Autumn meeting Tauherenikau Racecourse. 1st day. Saturday 4 April 1931. Official programme (PR-99-0178), combined into ATL-Group-00753, October 2022.

Date: 1924

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

By: Roe, Thomas, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2048-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a large paddock to a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse centre left. In the field there are three children, a man holding a horse by the bridle, another man holding three horses by the reins and two more horses in the centre of the image. A man and a woman are standing behind a fence in front of the house which is partly hidden by shrubs. There is a large stand of trees on the left of the driveway to the left of the house. Various trees along a stretch of the Whau River in the middle distance to the right of the house. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Mr T. Roe; Photographer's title on negative - "Bell Trotting Stud Farm" Avondale. Auckland. 1924. No. 29 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 136.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Robertson, G, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2047-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up across a sloping paddock to a large two-storeyed farmhouse partly hidden behind a hedge and amongst trees in the centre left middle distance. A man is standing in front of a high trimmed hedge which surrounds the house. Two cows in the paddock. Two Norfolk pines to the left of the house, macrocarpas on the right. Bushy area with farmland beyond on the right, marshy area centre right with the Whau River beyond on the far right. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape, detached from image] G. Robertson. Avondale, Auckland; Photographer's title on negative - Riverside Avondale No. 25 Relationship complexity - Print at PA6-358 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 129.7 cm

Date: 1940 - 1949

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-P-1940s

Description: Includes: 1940: [Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union. Presbyterian Women's Centenary Commemoration Service 1840-1940. St Andrew's Church Christchurch, NZ, 14 March 1940. Order of service (cover design by J Fitzgerald, designer) 1940: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Centenary 1840-1940. Town Hall Dunedin, 10 March 1940. Order of service. 1940: St Ninian's Presbyterian Church, Avondale. Dedication of Sunday School Hall by the Moderator, the Right Rev J Lawson Robinson. [10 March 1940]. Order of service 1942: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Campaign for Christian Order 1942. Bible reading card 1945: Miss M Chappell, Dominion Executive. Pres Women's F/ship, May 24-25 1945. Name tag 1945?: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Service of thanksgiving on the occasion of the cessation of hostilities [1945?]. Order of service 1948: Unveiling and dedication of Centenary Memorial at Knox College. 20 March 1948. Order of service Synod of Otago and Southland. Centennial mommemoration and thanksgiving service, conducted by the Moderator the Rev W Allen Stevely. Town Hall Dunedin, 21 March [1948. Order of service] 1949: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Parish of Hastings (St Andrew's and St John's). 60th Anniversary celebrations, 1889-1949. Souvenir programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: 1945-[ca 1988]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10010-006

Description: Aerial photographs taken by Whites Aviation between 1945 and 1998 of areas in the the Auckland region. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in sets according to location. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Most of the Whites Aviation negatives have been digitised and images are searchable by Record title and by Whites Aviation reference number e.g. WA-12345..

Date: 1855

From: Statutory Branch. Head Office. Department of Lands and Survey :[Aperture cards of] maps and plans

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-L&S-AT3

Description: Shows numbered land sections from Whau River to what is now Blockhouse Bay, Auckland. Also shows named roads. Contains three insets one which is a locality map, one a table showing provincial, school and religious land reserves with size and lot number and the other a schedule of land allotments and 'upset' prices in pounds sterling. Difficult to determine if map is ms or published or has been overlaid with published schedules. Insets as follows: 'Plan shewing the relative position of the Whau Township with the city of Auckland'; 'Schedule of reserves'; 'Schedule of allotments' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Daniel A Tole Draftsman Waste Land Office Auckland Quantity: 1 map(s) on 4 aperture cards. Physical Description: 35mm microfilm inserted into card, scale [1: 7 920], copy at same size as original Provenance: Donated by Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, November 1982

Date: 1978

Reference: Eph-A-RUGBY-1978

Description: Includes: Australia versus Manawatu. Showground Oval Palmerston North. 12 August 1978. Programme. Auckland Primary Schools' Rugby Union. Walter Dixon Memorial Rugby Tournament. Avondale. 21-23 August 1978. Programme. Australia versus Wanganui. Spriggens Park Wanganui. 30 August 1978. Programme. Canterbury v Manawatu. Showgrounds Oval Palmerston North, 30 September 1978. programme Cardiff v New Zealand. Cardiff Arms Park. 21 October 1978. Programme. New Zealand v West Wales XV. St Helens Ground Swansea. 25 October 1978. Programme. London Counties v New Zealand. Twickenham, 28 October 1978. Programme (2 copies). Ireland v New Zealand. Irish Rugby Football Union. Lansdowne Road Dublin. 4 November 1978. Programme. (2 copies) Wales v New Zealand. Cymru v Seeland Newydd. Cardiff Arms Park. 11 November 1978. Official programme (2 copies). Wales v New Zealand. Cardiff, 11th November 1978. Menu and toast list. South and South West of England v New Zealand. Bristol Memorial Ground, 15 November 1978. Programme. Midlands v New Zealand. Welford Road Ground Leicester. 18 November 1978. Programme (2 copies). Combined Services v New Zealand. Aldershot Military Stadium, 21 November 1978. Programme (2 copies). England v New Zealand. Twickenham. 25 November 1978. Programme (2 copies) Monmouthshire v New Zealand. Rodney Parade Newport. 29 November 1978. Programme (2 copies). North of England v New Zealand. Birkenhead Park, 2 December 1978. Programme (2 copies). North & Midlands of Scotland v New Zealand. Linksfield Stadium, 5 December 1978. Programme. Scotland v New Zealand. Murrayfield. 9 December 1978. Programme. Cambridge University v the All Blacks. Twickenham, 12 December 1978. Programme. (2 copies) New Zealand v Bridgend. Brewery Field, Bridgend. 13 December 1978. Programme (2 copies). Barbarians v New Zealand. Cardiff Arms Park. 16 December 1978. Programme (2 copies). Quantity: 22 publications. Physical Description: Sizes varying below 25 cm. Provenance: Some programmes purchased from Anthemion Auctions, Great Britain, in 2003; some from Matheson Sports International in 2004; from Sporting Memorys sale and Anthemion auctions in 2005. Two programmes donated by Carol Stigley, 2016.

Date: 1901

By: Andrew, Sons & Company

Reference: Eph-A-TRANSPORT-1901-01

Description: A cardboard timetable for horse-drawn buses from Avondale to the city, and from Mount Albert to the city. Also lists the less frequent service to and from Arch Hill, Avondale and New Lynn. The folded card contains advertisements for Andrew, Sons & Co, grain merchants, who hired out cabs, brakes, buggies and every class of vehicle at short notice and sold produce (oats, maize, bran, potatoes, hay, straw and coal) at Avondale. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on folded card, 113 x 54 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Auckland auction, 16 October 2010, art of lot 92.

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: [Pamphlets, programmes, flyers relating to wood-chopping and sports meetings, collected by Eric Warner. 1915-2009]

Reference: Eph-B-SPORT-Warner-1950s

Description: Includes: 1952: NZ Athletic Cycling & Axemen's Union (Inc). NZ Championship meeting. A & P Showgrounds Palmerston North, 1-2 February 1952. Typescript programme sheet (2 copies) NZ Championship meeting. Second day, 2nd February 1952. Typescript programme sheet 1953: Wood chopping carnival. Maidstone Park, Upper Hutt, 28 February 1953. Typescript preliminary programme (2 copies) Makirikiri Sports Club. 31st annual meeting to be held on the grounds of the Scott Estate Makirikiri, 14 March 1953. Programme 1954: Makirikiri Sports Club. 32nd annual meeting to be held on the grounds of the Scott Estate, Makirikiri, 13 March 1954. Programme (2 copies) New Zealand Athletic Cycling and Axemen's Union & Axemen's Carnival. Annual conference, 22-23 January 1954. Programme / flyer New Zealand Professional Cycling and Running Championships. Auckland's birthday carnival. Western Springs Stadium, 6 February 1954. Typescript programme sheet Rangitikei A & P Assn. Open chopping competition in conjunction with the annual show. 6 February 1954. Preliminary programme / call for entries 1955: Makirikiri Sports Club. 33rd annual meeting to be held on the grounds of the Scott Estate Makirikiri, 5 March 1955. Programme Mapiu Sports Club. Sports meeting, Mapiu Domain, 22 January [1955]. Programme sheet 1956: Mapiu Sports Club. 8th annual sports meeting. Mapiu Domain, 21 January 1956. Programme sheet 1957: Kawerau Anniversary Carnival. Moutain race. 27 January 1957. Rules / entry form 1958: Axemen's events at Otaki. April 5th 1958. Entries close March 26th. Preliminary programme St Patrick's Day Sports Club, Avondale. Glen Eden Domain, 15 March 1958. Programme sheet (2 copies) 1959: Waitara Cycle, Athletic and Axemen's Club. Annual sports carnival, Saturday 21 February 1959. Programme sheet Quantity: 1 folder(s) 15 items (plus duplicates). Physical Description: Flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.