Places

Date: 1888 - 1890

By: Borieson, C W, active 1889; Ashcroft, Albert Edward, 1862-1942; Humphries, Thomas, 1841-1928; Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936; Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922; General Survey Lithographic Office; Roe, J E, active 1910-1912

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1888/Acc.35292

Description: A cadastral map of rural and suburban sections open for sale and selection of the area from Lake Horowhenua to Koputuroa Road, and bounded by the Kawiu and Makomako Roads. This cadastral map has numbered sections, some coloured, and include acreages and owners' names handwritten in some sections. The Wellington - Manawatu Railway is marked as are a school and a waterworks reserve. Streets and the Koputuroa Stream are named. The base maps are of sections in the Blocks I, II & VI, Waiopehu Survey District. Sections marked with red are large settlements open for sale or selection and are referred to in a key. Schedule of the suburban sections and rural lands in this district include the section number, acreage, value and rent. Terms and conditions of sale or selection of the Levin village settlement include the statement 'Drawn by F.J. Hales'. Includes a written description of rural land and the application date of 18 March 1889 at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington and includes J.W.A. Marchant's name. The inset map is a locality plan of Levin. Handwritten names listed are: Seager, Hewit, J. McGowan, G.H. Gower, Ingram, Borieson, Brown, Blair, R Prouse, Dalrymple, Toxward, Lancaster, Stuckey. Title part stamped and part handwritten on verso Signature centre top: C.W. Borieson, Contractor, Wellington Inset: Levin locality plan. Scale [1:506 880] Base map: Plan of rural and suburban sections Horowhenua Block, situated in Blocks I, II & VI, Waiopehu Survey District / Surveyed by A.E. Ashcroft & T.L. Humphries, assistant surveyors. Wellington, N.Z., General Survey Office, 1889. Handwritten note on bottom right: Next unit to be paid 1 Jany 1890. Note it will be needful to write Govt. to inquire the amount as the leases make it ... See units number of acres required for felling to comply with ... of residence [handwriting difficult to decipher] Quantity: 2 map(s) on one sheet, including a locality plan. Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, linen backed, coloured, scales vary, 42 x 56.6 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mr. J. Roe, 30.03.1977

Date: 1956 - 1960 - 1979 - 1967 - 1995

By: Avenue Nurseries

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Avenue

Description: Mail order catalogues for rose plants, including roses of all kinds: bush roses, climbing roses, miniature roses, miniature standards, standard roses. Years held are: 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1979-1995 Quantity: 25 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 215 x 150 mm.

From: Carnegie, Andrew 1835-1919 : New Zealand library applications

Reference: fMS-038

Date: 1911, 11 November 1918

By: Hinde, M, active 1991

Reference: PAColl-1851

Description: Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.

Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

Reference: PA1-q-032

Description: Album contains coloured photographs with views of New Zealand, and some unlabelled family photographs, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, circa 1950s. Images also include three of Oregon and the Oregon State University. New Zealand views are concentrated mainly in the Wellington area including the Wairarapa, Milford Sound and the Dunedin area. Note handwritten at top right-hand corner of the cover reads "Aerial. Qtn-Milford 1957 & Chch-Qtn. (Air & bus)" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album, with "Photographs" lettered in gold, 255 x 380 mm

Date: 1970 - 2010

Reference: Eph-C-CIVIL-DEFENCE-1970/2010

Description: Includes posters and booklets: 1970/1980s?: Civil Defence. These simple instructions are issued by the Joint Rotorua City and County Civil Defence Organisation and could mean to you and yours the difference between life and death in the event of a local major disaster ... [1970-1980s?] 1971: A rough guide to Wellington's sub-area Five [central Wellington]. 1971 Civil Defence message form from Sub-Area 5 HQ [Invitation to meeting 27 April 1971, at TAB HQ Building, Lambton Quay, signed by Lindsay Buick-Constable] 1980s?: Hamilton-Waikato Civil Defence. In case of earthquake & emergencies (2 copies) 1987: Civil Defence. How to survive earthquake, tsunami, flood, fire [1987] 1993: Levin and Districts Civil Defence Organisations. Emergency family guide. Fourth edition 1993. A [Levin] Chronicle publication [Tabloid paper, 20 pages] (2 copies) 2010: Massey University Wellington. Disaster narratives and the Canterbury earthquake; learning from Katrina, the BP oil spill and climate change. Professor Bruce C Glavovic, EQC Chair in Natural Hazards Planning. Massey University Wellington public lecture series. Theatrette, Museum Building Buckle Street, 7 December [2010] Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints approximately A3 size. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: 1905

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

Reference: 1/4-023327-G

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

Date: [ca 1898]-1953

From: Waldie family : Photographs

By: Neville Studio (Levin, N.Z.); ACME Studio; Starlite Studios; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964

Reference: PAColl-8736-1

Description: Levin Jubilee procession and school jubilee February 1940. Levin School reunion ca 1950. A group of housemaids dating from the 1890s. South Island landscapes and mountains 1953. Places and events such as a view of Caroline Bay Timaru, people on the deck of the Earnslaw on Lake Wakatipu, a tent in the bush, and the deck of the Tamahine in Picton, all 1953. A portrait of a man and a woman taken by S P Andrew during the Second World War. Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 9 March 1994

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

Reference: EP/1994/0681-F

Description: Folders Jenny sargent (left) and Xhou Jie Xia, working at the end of the production line at L R Wishart's shirt factory in Levin. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney 9 March 1994. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1916-1924

By: Holmes, A C, active 1916-1924

Reference: MS-Papers-1443

Description: Collected by member of the Levin Chamber of Commerce and the Levin-Foxton-Marton Railway League, the papers are concerned with proposed railway line running from Levin to Marton via Foxton Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: [1944]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-17

Description: Contents comprise notes re adze types; type VII, VB from Turakina district; Waitaha adze from Porirua Harbour; from Mangaroa; type IIA from Patea; greenstone adze from Levin-Foxton highway area; map of sites of Horowhenua adzes found by Henry J Kilsby; grey stone adze from Heatherlea-Koputaroa area, Horowhenua; blackstone adzes from Onukuwaiata, Waimakaira, Horowhenua and Wallace Road, Levin; location maps of adzes found by A Seifert, A Gillespie, Louis Noara and on Clifford's farm, Tokomaru area (1941-1944); adzes from Makurerua Swamp, Horowhenua Arrangement: Notebook no 16 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [ca 1890-1930]

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9773

Description: Contains Powles family photographs from the 1890s to the 1920s. Includes: a group portrait of the Levin Football Club, `Cup winners, 1898'; a view of Wellington Harbour with masted ships; views of a harbour town, probably on the south coast of England; views of two churches probably in the south-east of England; a photograph of an aqueduct, possibly part of the Wey and Arun canal; landscape and village scenes from the south-east of england and New Zealand; portraits of military officers; photographs of Colonel Charles Guy Powles on a horse and meeting soldiers while serving in Egypt; unidentified photographs of people and locations, probably taken in the Wellington Region. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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

Date: 1988

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-WRC-E7/1A-Acc.

Description: Electoral information shown is correct at 9 Dec 1988. Post 1987 Standard Meshblock numbers shown. Electoral base map NZMS 261 sheet S25 Levin; New Zealand Department of Lands and Survey Edition 2 Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Ink on white paper. Scale [ca 1: 50, 000] 99 x 75.5 cm.

Date: 1994-1995

From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson Ltd : Architectural records of Bill Toomath and Derek Wilson

Reference: 2005-177-03/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1890-1943]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: Series-2239

Date: Mar 1956

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0261-08/8

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces).

Date: 1950 - 2020

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-L

Description: Includes ephemera for hotels in the following locations: Lake Rotoiti Levin Lower Hutt Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 250 mm.

Date: [ca 31 Aug 1981]

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

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1981/2965-F

Description: Women clothing workers from Rixen Manufacturing Company, Levin, being read messages of support for their sit-in protest regarding redundancy pay. All images include Clothing Workers' Federation secretary Mr Frank Thorn. Three images also include mechanic, Norman MacFarlane, and Clothing Workers' Federation president, Mrs Joyce Hawe. Photographs taken circa 31 August 1981 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Source of descriptive information - Evening Post caption from 31 August 1981, attached to back of EP/1981/2965/13a. Historical note from Global Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter #53 from http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0402/S00092.htm accessed July 2009. Workers occupied Rixen Manufacturing after they were given one weeks notice of closure with no redundancy payment. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) strip with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1900 - 1910

By: Dorset, H W (Mrs), active 1977

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/[19--?]/Acc.36345

Description: Cadastral map of the Horowhenua Block including the Ohau and Horowhenua Rivers, Pakao Hakio and Lake Horowhenua. Ohau and Levin are marked and several roads and the railway line are included. Numbered sections include acreages, while some also indicate the number of names associated with that section. The name Hope is written adjacent to one section but outside of the block's boundaries. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale [1:63 360], 28.8 x 41 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs. H.W. Dorset, 30 March 1977