Places

Date: [ca 1970s-1985]

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Preston, Gaylene Mary, 1947-

Reference: PAColl-10045-3

Description: Photographs (single prints and contact sheets) relating to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, particularly the Cleaners' Union, ca 1975-1985. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr, Hazel Armstrong, Gaylene Preston, and the Evening Post newspaper. Identified figures include: Gavin Cummings, Alex Weir, Hilary Brown, Verna Sutherland, Joy Molnar, Jim Anderton, Pat Kelly, Peter Cranney, Don Swan, Danny Wikiera, Cliff Medland, Gaylene Preston, Hazel Armstrong, Victor Batista, Kathleen Kerr, Gwenda Jenkins, Bob Laycock, Des Clarke, Ian [Hoggets?], and Margaret Wilson. Events, disputes, campaigns, and protests covered include: British Petroleum and Crothalls and Company industrial action, Rutherford House dispute, Waiouru Military Camp picket, Kindergarten Cleaners' dispute, images relating to the dispute around the sacking of Spotswood College caretaker Doug Mumm, Wanganui Boys College equal pay protest, Central Institute of Technology Cleaners dispute (including 1979 march on Parliament), the `Reinstate Tina' protest, and cleaners stopwork meeting at Trades Hall (1978) as well as an Annual General Meeting and a conference in Auckland. Miscellaneous images include cleaners and caretakers in their workplaces, including employees at Dunlops Tyres, British Petroleum House, and a number of schools (Woodhalten School (Wainuiomata), and Porirua College). Also a cutting of Pat Kelly speaking to anti-Vietnam War protest at Parliament. Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records.

Date: [ca 1940-1950]

Reference: PAColl-6906

Description: 8 images of hotels including one of Porirua Hotel in the distance beyond a scattering of houses, a small church and a Shell station. Three are of a bad tram accident at the corner of Webb Street and Taranaki Street where a Thorndon tram went right through the premises adjacent to the Napier-Wellington Transport Co Ltd. Police and passers-by are looking on and workmen are trying to clear the debris. The last image is of what may be a nurses' hostel at Wellington Hospital. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045211 to 045222 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s) glass. 2 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1988-1989]

From: Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme 1944- : Papers of the Matriarchs

Reference: MS-Papers-4416-19

Description: Contains holograph notes, clippings, whakapapa and original transcripts of the interview with Solomon. One of these transcripts is unmarked and one has been proofed, edited and corrected. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 23 February 1981

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

Reference: EP/1981/0778-F

Description: Greg, Alan, Kim, and Pryor Whakataka-Brightwell, and other carvers at work on the waka Hawaiki-Nui at Porirua. So far they had worked on the project for seven months. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin on the 23 of February 1981. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1979

From: New Zealand National Party : Further records

Reference: 89-075-138/12

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 29 November 1989

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

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1989/4357-F

Description: Original caption reads "Army [sic] Tauakume looks on while her grandmother Toru Tauakume and Ina Makirere work on a Tivaivai." Photograph taken in Porirua on 29 November 1989 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. The photographs were taken for an Evening Post article on a Cook Islands women's group in Porirua. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1955 - 1965

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department. Housing Division.

Reference: MapColl-832.47964gbbd/[ca 1960]/Acc.11811

Description: Cadastral map of the Porirua East subdivision, Block 12, from Hampshire Street southwards to Carnavon Place. Streets are named and sections numbered; shows recreation reserves. Written on map: HDW 31911 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 73.8 x 74 cm.

Date: 1963

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: Wellington Regional Planning Authority

Reference: MapColl-WRC-C9/7-Acc.

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations + transparency in two parts. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale ca 1: 63 360, 103 x 76 cm.

Date: 1953 - 1956

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department. Housing Division.; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47964gbbd/1953/Acc.11798

Description: Cadastral map of a Porirua subdivision, from Champion Street, southwards to Gear Terrace, and westwards to the Wellington to Auckland railway. Shows named streets and numbered sections, as well as annotations added before copying such as Gazette references for Crown land. Some sections are named mental hygiene, Railway Department, plantation reserve, Maori Affairs, Plunket, Mr YC Ngan, Gillon, Ryan, HVEPB, Harrison, ?Handy. Extended Title - Plan of subdivision of Lots 69, 70, 70A, 71, 71A, & Part 26 Deposited Plan 1900, Part Sections 107 & 108, Porirua District & Part Sections 17 & 19 Tukapu District, Block II, Belmont Survey District. Written on map: HDW 31730 'Wellington Land District, Makara County' 'Comprised in CT' Written on map: 'Block 6 Porirua'. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 74.5 x 76 cm.

Date: 1958

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-02

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Dec 1906-May 1907

From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0407-23

Description: Letters from Keys to family and friends providing detailed information about his travels through the lower North Island on Maori Land Court business; there are detailed descriptions of the countryside and townships which Keys travels through, and discussions of people that he meets; there are also discussions of Maori practices and customs that he experiences and his impressions of them; there is also information about Keys' work in the Maori Land Court Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1988

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

Reference: A-399-164/172

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and a perspective drawing of the exterior. The building later housed Pataka (Porirua Museum), and the Porirua Public Library. Original file numbering was 004.01.04.042 Related map at MapColl-collection-Alington. Quantity: 9 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photocopies, 297 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 1978

By: Gabites, Alington & Edmondson (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2009-054

Description: Shows a perspective drawing of a group of buildings on a marae. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, 590 x 840 mm Provenance: Donated by Mr Bill Alington in August 2009.

Date: [1960-1962]

From: Keyes, Ian Warwick, 1938-2004 : Papers relating to George Leslie Adkin

Reference: fMS-Papers-8010-1

Description: Notes, place name lists, Polynesian Society journal notes, diagrams of adzes etc and area map of Porirua area Quantity: 1 folder(s). Tracings of adzes and map of Porirua area

Date: 1970 - 1971

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

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-072-087/102

Description: Includes floor plans, including plans for proposed new gallery, plans for office building alteration, toilets and lightwells, shopfronts, and reflected ceiling plan. Quantity: 16 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawings on tracing paper, 580 x 760 mm.

Date: 1965 - 1969

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

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-072-078/086

Description: Includes floor plans, parking deck plans, gallery and stairway plans. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawings on tracing paper, 580 x 760 mm.

Date: 1970

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R18/1B-Acc.

Description: Identifies in colour Regional boundary, state forest parks, water catchment areas, town belts, housing clusters etc. Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Coloured ink on greaseproof paper. Scale [ca 1: 63 360] 113 x 76 cm.

Date: 1962

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

Reference: B-137-477

Description: A man tells his young son who is getting himself a glass of water from the kitchen tap to cut out the eight ounce glasses and start using ponies. Refers to ratepayers having to pay more for water. Hand-written pencil text below the cartoon reads 'Here, cut out the eight ounce glasses, m'lad - from now on you're drinking ponies!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, crayon and letratone on paper, 255 x 280mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1909

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.47964gbbd/1909/Acc.22978

Description: Cadastral map of the area from Urukahika Stream which acts as a boundary, to Porirua Harbour. Numbered sections include owners' names and acreages but exclude acreages of the road running along the edge of all properties. The public road is marked as 50 links wide. Names include Raiha Puaha, P. & H. Te Hiko, Matenga Te Hiko, Tere Maihi, Amiria. Pencilled additions indicated that some sections belonged to other owners than those named. Other Titles - Plan of part Te Kenepuru, Porirua, Belmont Survey District, Block 1 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:3 960], 22.6 x 37.9 cm.

Date: 1940 - 1941

By: Rose, P R, active 1940; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.47965gbbd/1940/Acc.10172

Description: Survey map with cadastral information, showing land to taken for a new road in Pukerua Bay, where the streets or roads named Muri, Pa, Toenga and Manuka intersect beside the North Island Main Trunk Railway. The map is heavily surveyed, and shows Deposited Plan and Certificate of Title numbers, acreage, section price and current owner's name. Names of owners include: HM The King, EL Gray, C Gray, AK Lindsay, KAAM Hyde, RE Astridge, EJS Peare, II Radcliffe, WV Allen, MMP Bonner, ML Coveney, AN Taplin, Guardian Trust, GM McIlwraith, HG Mayer, AE Caddick, FF Brown, MA Bedell, E Burgess, GW Magnus, W Foothead, KH Miller, DL Gray, Hutt City Council, Native Land 2537. As per note on map, land taken from C Gray is coloured in yellow. Written on map: S[urvey] O[ffice] 20581. Signed by Public Works district engineer. Certified by registered surveyor. Written on map: Total area required for road 3a 2r 22.453 p, total area to be given in exchange 0a 1r 09.3p. Some manuscript annotations added to map. Written on map: WDO 8916 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on diazo photoprint, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 71.2 x 71.5 cm.