Places

Date: [1931-1955]

From: Huggan, Lily Annie, 1890-1983 : Papers of Annie and Joseph Huggan

Reference: MSY-2169

Description: Scrapbook compiled by Joseph Huggan, 1931-1955. Includes newspaper cuttings, photographs, invitations and other ephemera, ca 1931-1955. Newspaper cuttings relate to Korokoro Progressive Association; Korokoro Ratepayers Association; Korokoro in general and to Justice of the Peace and Mayor, Joseph Huggan. Also Petone jubilee celebrations programme of events, Dec 1939; programme to commemorate the jubilee held at Palace Theatre, Nov 1939; Presbyterian Church of NZ service of commemoration (centenary of the first service held near Petone Beach on 23 Feb 1840),1940; photographs taken at Waikaremoana, hydro-electric power at Karapiro and Arapuni and related cuttings re power supply; order of funeral service for Peter Fraser, 1950; 30,000 Club; Royal Tour, 1954; Petone Council; etc Arrangement: Loose papers at 89-027-31 Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 26 September 1984

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

Reference: EP/1984/4508-F

Description: Farewell party for Mrs McDowell (known as Auntie Frances) of Korokoro, photographed 26 September 1984 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1905 to 1907

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: 1963

From: Wellington Regional Planning Authority: Maps from records

By: Wellington Regional Planning Authority

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/1963/Acc.51556

Description: Map of the area at the western end of the Petone foreshore showing a scheme for diversion of the railway, a suggested location for a new motorway beside the harbour on reclaimed land, and an Olympic-length canoeing and rowing reach between them. Land to the west of the railway, to be reclaimed by the Ministry of Works, is designated for industry, with the existing Hutt Road at the foot of the hills. The strip of reclaimed land between the proposed motorway and the rowing reach is marked as camping ground and beach with a shelterbelt of trees. There is a small lake, into which the Korokoro Stream flows, at the northern end of the rowing reach for swimming and model boats. The adjacent land at the western end of Petone Beach is marked as Harbour Board reclamation with a new beach, a water skiing clubhouse, parking and launching area. Includes a cross-section, scale 1:480, with the industrial land and diverted railway on the right hand side, the reach, and then the reclaimed land with the new motorway adjacent to the harbour. "4.5.63" Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil on paper, scale 1:6 336, 30.4 x 60.4 cm.

Date: [Between 1927 and 1955]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-206

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1927 and 1955, mostly in the Wellington Region. Some are art photographs, including still life images of carvings, cloisonne ware and porcelain, and some are tinted. One sequence shows the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, both interior and exterior views. Some were taken in April 1936 before the building was furnished; others were taken later in 1936 and 1937, including the Kauri Hall, the Sculpture Hall, the Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Academy Gallery, the Maori Hall, and the entrance vestibule. Civic events are shown in illuminations at the Government Buildings for the King George V Silver Jubilee on 12th May 1935; the Carillon tower floodlit for for the coronation of King George VI; and night photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, including the Australian and British pavilions. Wellington is shown in views from various hills and rooftops. Specific trips and occasions include a Waikaremoana trip in 1930; the Victoria University College Natural History Society trip to Butterfly Creek in 1933; a Camera Club outing near Mangaroa Hill in 1938; and celebrating Xmas in Auckland in 1952. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 14 March 1978

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

By: Stevenson, Alan, active 1978

Reference: EP/1978/0995-F

Description: Michael Gore (left) and Matthew Hickling (2nd from left) at the new Korokoro Playcentre, photographed on 14 March 1978 by Evening Post staff photographer Alan Stevenson. Original caption reads: "With a brand new building behind them, young engine-driver Michael Gore, 4, takes his passenger, Matthew Hickling, 2, for a make-believe tour of the Korokoro Playcentre grounds. The children are among 14 tinies who moved house, lock, stock and toys from the old scout hall to the new centre in singer's Road, which was officially opened by the Mayor of Petone (Mr Gee) last Saturday". (Evening Post, 14 March 1978). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1964-1965

From: Huggan, Lily Annie, 1890-1983 : Papers of Annie and Joseph Huggan

Reference: 89-027-30

Description: Includes Report on the Korokoro water supply and related matters, by Spencer Hollings & Ferner, Consulting engineers, Aug 1964 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: 1979

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-C24/11-Acc.

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations] + transparency. Physical Description: Coloured ink on cream paper. Scale [ca 1: 10 000] 80 x 59 cm.

Date: [ca 1950s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0106

Description: Aerial photograph of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking west towards the Hutt Road and Horokiwi Quarries. Includes Petone Esplanade, Petone Railway Station, Jackson Street, Cornish Street industrial area, etc. Probably taken by Whites Aviation Ltd in 1950s. Inscriptions: Mat recto - centre - Gear Meat Co. Ltd, Petone, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) hand coloured. Physical Description: 38 x 47.5 cm with mount

Date: 1952, 1960s

Reference: MS-Papers-7725

Description: Transcripts of talks given by Mrs Galbraith, Mayor Annie Huggan and `Wally Hirsch's grandfather', a market gardener, to Form II students at Wilford School in 1961 regarding the history of the Hutt Valley. Also the reminiscences of E J (Ted) Ridler, written in 1952, and typescript notes `From village to town' and `The first school', written circa 1960s regarding Petone history. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1874-1987

By: Ashton, Chris (Mrs), active 2000

Reference: MS-Group-0931

Description: Includes ms transcript of diary of Mrs Talbut kept on board the `Wennington' during voyage from London to Wellington, 16 Jan-24 May 1874; cash book of Henry Hill Kingham, engineer of Timaru, 1891-1921; notebook of Thomas Riddler of Petone, 1904-1911; deed between members of Te Puni, Warena, Karena and Parata family, Taare Waitara, Miriana Rapira, Eparaima Takarangi, Ani Matene and Ripeka Love (the lessors) and Thomas Riddler (lessee) re land known as Te Koro Koro South, 1904; deed re lease of Section 11 Horokiwi between Rangiwahia Te Puni and others to Thomas Riddler, 1905; family tree showing antecedents and descendants of Eva Gertrude Talbut and Thomas Riddler (1878-1976); family tree showing descendants of William Riddler (1801-1879) and Elizabeth Sparrow; family tree of descendants of John Ridler (b 1630) William Riddler and his wife Elizabeth (née Sparrow) arrived in Petone in 1841, having been engaged by Henry Petre to bring out a consignment of stock. He took up a block of land alongside the Hutt Road. His grandson Thomas Riddler married Eva Gertrude Talbut in Petone in 1903. Eva Talbut immigrated to New Zealand on the 'Wennington' in 1874 with her family. Ivy Young married Charlie Bentley and the couple had two children, Margaret (the donor's mother) and Douglas. On the dissolution of the marriage the two children were adopted by Thomas and Eva Riddler. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter (some photocopies) Provenance: The donor is the great-great-grand-daughter of William and Elizabeth Riddler.

Date: 20 Apr 1986

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

Reference: EP/1986/1877-F

Description: Evening Post caption of 21 April 1986 reads: "Concerned Korokoro residents study a map of Frank Cameron Park and the adjacent Wakefield subdivision from the top of a pile of soil which shows obvious signs of the tip site below. They are the Burgess family - from left, Tony, Gavin, Robert, and Maureen - and at rear are Mrs Mavis Dempsey, Dr John Ainsworth and Graeme Rennie." Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer 20 April 1986. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: ca 1948 - 1966

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Ian Hulse Photography

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-018

Description: Photographs of Lower Hutt, Petone and Wellington city, taken circa 1948 to 1966, for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Included are photographs of streets, libraries, public swimming pools, the construction of the Petone overbridge, the Hutt River, the Hutt Recreation Ground, Petone foreshore, the opening of the Hutt Estuary Bridge, Percy's Reserve and State housing. 1840-1940 settlers memorial on Petone foreshore designed by H L Massey in 1939. Features a replica of the `Aurora'. Converted into the Petone Settlers Museum, in stages, between 1977-1989. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Chiefly between 1912 and 1914]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-198

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1912 and 1914. Images include Godber's family, a few of identified people (names listed in the name file), and many with no identification. One image of a group of fitters and turners apprentices at the Petone Railway Workshops, taken in 1913, has all the apprentices named (listed in the full record for Godber negative, APG-0457-1/2) Views of the old Central Fire Station at Petone, and the new Petone Fire Brigade Station; the aftermath of a huge fire at Cooks' Cooperage (on January 14, 1914); and a locomotive which had rolled. Local Petone scenes include the Petone Council Chambers and town clock, and a number of houses in the area, including the home of Godber's friend Tom Mather; Korokoro bush, and the Korokoro Reservoir. Away from the Wellington area, Godber photographed a number of houses in Clonbern Road area; the Makatote Viaduct and the Manganui-o-te-Ao Viaduct. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 107 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1963

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: Wellington (N.Z. : Region). Regional Council

Reference: MapColl-WRC-2/15/5-Acc.

Description: Shows Petone Borough Council boundary and Maori block From file 502 June 1963 Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale ca 1: 15840, 47 x 33 cm.

Date: 1930 - 1939

Reference: Eph-A-CARNIVAL-1930s

Description: Includes: 1931: Petone's Christmas shopping carnival and NZ Industries Display. 10-24 December 1931. Progressive Petone. Programme 1933: National-Confidence Carnival Wellington. The Pageant; episodes of historical New Zealand events. Then and now. Town Hall, 20-21 November 1933. Programme (2 copies) 1934: Koro Koro 1st annual Carnival and Fire Display. 3 February 1934. Souvenir programme (2 copies) 1935: Koro Koro 2nd annual Carnival and Fire Display. 2 February 1935. Official programme (2 copies) 1939: New Plymouth's second annual Mardi Gras. 26 December 1939 - 2 January 1940. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, programmes, sizes varying up to 240 mm. Provenance: Purchased and donated from various sources, including the collection of Walter Nash.

Date: 1932

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

Reference: 1/2-086596-G

Description: Photograph related to the official opening of two water reservoirs at Korokoro, Hutt Valley, Wellington region. The ceremony was officiated by the Mayor of Petone, David McKenzie, on 7 May 1932, when this photograph was taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington. Source of descriptive information - From negative register and Evening Post newspaper, 9 May 1932, p 5. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1932

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

Reference: 1/2-086601-G

Description: Photograph related to the official opening of two water reservoirs at Korokoro, Hutt Valley, Wellington region. The ceremony was officiated by the Mayor of Petone, David McKenzie, on 7 May 1932, when this photograph was taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington. Source of descriptive information - From negative register and Evening Post newspaper, 9 May 1932, p 5. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1932

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

Reference: 1/2-086597-G

Description: Photograph related to the official opening of two water reservoirs at Korokoro, Hutt Valley, Wellington region. The ceremony was officiated by the Mayor of Petone, David McKenzie, on 7 May 1932, when this photograph was taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington. Source of descriptive information - From negative register and Evening Post newspaper, 9 May 1932, p 5. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative