Places

Date: 1911

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-9/5/4-Acc.

Description: Identifies European population in the South Island 1911. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on greaseproof paper, partly bound with brown paper, Scale [ca 1: 633 600] 102 x 139 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1970s]

From: Haas, Anthony Roger David, 1944-2019: Photographs and recordings

Reference: PA12-8374

Description: From box labled "Tongan photos for publication in `Joy Magazine,' 1993. These include - Harvested coconuts and copra on mats with traditional thatched building in background. Two women working on a large woven mat. Police guard at the Royal Palace. Woman weaving a bowl-shaped basket. Yacht seen through the mouth of a cave. Boy holding a large fish. Carved wooden female figure. Houses. Women performing. From box labled "South Island photos for publication in `Joy Magazine,' 1993. These include - Portrait of Asian man and woman. Asian woman holding an Ocean River Adventure Co tee shirt. Asian man in hammock. New Zealand family on lawn in front of large house. Line of trampers walking along the sea shore. View of rata in flower in native forest. Tramper under a tree with a waterfall in the background. A paraglider flying over South Island lakes. Scenic views of the South Island. Tital supplied by the Library Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Provenance: Donated by Mr Anthony Haas, Wellington, 2007

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: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-418-001/021

Description: Political cartoons. The Auckland Blues win Super-12 game. As Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark soar in the opinion polls Jim Bolger considers a sex-change. Tim Shadbolt becomes deputy leader of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party. Tuku Morgan is accused of seeking a fee for an exclusive interview with the media. Public opinion on Tuku Morgan's behaviour. Maori bashing continues over Tuku Morgan, as Maori hit themselves and ask why he just doesn't resign. Maori occupy land in Waiouru during winter as temperatures hit a low. They are protesting against the wild horse mustering? Winston Peter's accepts Tuku Morgan's apology and assumes the moral high ground. International study shows kiwi kids poor at maths but good at bullying. Bob Jones suggests that the Beehive be dynamited. A look at genetic makeup in terms of race. Comment on teacher inaction over bullying in school play grounds. Jim Bolger comments on a meeting between National Party and New Zealand First MPs held in his home. Buyer beware - used car importers rip people off. Comment on what iwi-based Treaty settlements mean to many Maori. The International Rugby Board (IRB) threatens to clamp down on New Zealand style rugby. The law forbids the rich and the poor from living in shoddy housing that leads to unneccesary fires and death. School leaving age kept at 16. Winston Peters finds himself on a high-wire with pressures all around him like, 'fiscal restraint', 'Maori hopes', 'social spending' and 'NZ First's last chance'. Winston Peters goes off to Hong Kong leaving Jim Bolger and Bill Birch defending the budget. Winston Peters at the handover of Hong Kong to China, continues to warn about the Asian take over. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1985 - 1909

By: Walsh, Alfred Wilson, 1859-1916; Fourth Estate Productions

Reference: C-117-065-a

Description: Shows South Island scene of huts in a valley. There are two wooden huts in the right foreground, and a woman on a path in front of them, carries a pole and possibly a bucket. Further off is another group of huts, beneath a bushy slope. On image: Alfred W. Walsh, 1909. Reproduction of watercolour. Original held in National Art Gallery. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, 420 x 600 mm Provenance: Free print offer from the publishers of the New Zealand business who's who, 1985.

Date: 1940

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/2/11-Acc.38781

Description: Identifies in colour, areas under irrigation, areas under construction and areas where irrigation suggested in the South Island Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on cream linen. Scale [ca. 1:1 013 760] 82 x 68.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1946

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/5/16-38991

Description: Map identifying in colour State Indigenous forests and State Exotic forests in the South Island. Base map: New Zealand Department of Lands and Survey Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour on cream paper. Scale [ca 1:2 000 000] 51 x 38 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1936

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-9/4/21-Acc.

Description: Shows density of population in the South Island 1936. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cellulite, Scale indeterminable. 99 x 66 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1977

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; E C Keating (Firm)

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1977-01

Description: Shows a photograph of a southern lake and snowy mountains, in the shape of a roaring stag. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 900 x 645 mm (untrimmed) Provenance: Purchased in 2006.

Date: 1981 - 1982

Reference: Eph-D-DANCE-1982-01

Description: Poster shows a photograph of a dancer in motion, standing flat on one bare foot, with arms outstretched. Her pony tail swings in the air above her. The quotation from the New York Times was made by journalist Jennifer Dunning after a 1981 tour to the United States (See Limbs programme for the fire programme 1985, at Eph-B-DANCE-1985). The "On the Mainland" tour may refer to the group's tour of the South Island in 1982, and this has determined the estimated date. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on sheet 595 x 284 mm. Provenance: Donated by the New Zealand School of Dance in 2009.

Date: 1900-1909

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B005

Description: Contains verbatim evidence from sittings of the Maori Land Court at Otaki and in the South Island to hear subdivision and succession cases, with details of land ownership and occupation, whakapapa and ancestral rights, pa and mahinga kai and notes about current use of land; a letter to Te Whatahoro from his daughter is also included Enclosures - 1 page letter dated Maehe 12 1907 inserted in the beginning of book Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Marbled boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 3

Date: 1911

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-CHA-6/3/6-Acc

Description: Identifies cities, boroughs, town districts (their importance being shown by the size of the lettering), railways, hot springs and boundaries of land district in the South Island. Lands and Survey; Base map South Island New Zealand, copied from a map in A-J, 1912. H 31 deleting Kowai, Oxford, Rangiora and Eyre Counties which came into being as from 1.4.12 and Awatere County 21.11.11. Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 114 x 140 cm Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1934-1947

By: Carrington, Arthur Hugh, 1895-1947

Reference: MS-Papers-0079

Description: Includes correspondence on Marlborough and South Island Maori history, and article by W J Elvy on Maori mythology, articles by Carrington on various topics including the history of Kaiapoi and Hundalee, an incomplete and unpublished typescript biography of Alexander Dalrymple, unpublished typescript biography of John Meares, and working notes on 18th century Pacific voyages, including some notes for "Cooks's lieutenants", another unpublished typescript held by the Turnbull Library Soldier and ethnologist; see biographical page with inventory Quantity: 18 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in the reading room was removed on 24 Nov 2014 as it contained no additional information. A copy is available in the staf backfile..

Date: 1842 - 1907 - 1868

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/11/33-Acc.38166

Description: Map possibly intended to identify areas explored by Cotterill, Brunner, Mitchell and Dashwood, Weld, Lee & Jollie, Mackay and Travers (1842-1868) but only reference key completed. Base map of NZ - South Island, Nelson and Marlborough with parts of Canterbury. Lands and Survey [1907]. Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink and colour drawings on cream paper. Scale [ca. 1: 506 880] 67.5 x 94 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1951]

From: Wellman, Harold William, 1909-1999 : Papers

Reference: MSI-Papers-7919-07

Description: Tables, annotated map, letter and notes relating to hot springs in the Southern Alps Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1986

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

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

Reference: B-136-598

Description: A group of well-heeled people are having drinks in a living room overlooking the Waitamata Harbour with Rangitoto in the distance. The harbour is festooned with yachts and there is a picture of a yacht on the wall. A man who looks like a boating-type poses elegantly with his wineglass in his hand. He tells the others that he is thinking of doing the South Island which he believes is about 600 kilometres south of the Bombay Hills. The cartoon is a comment on the parochialism of Aucklanders, this one seeming to regard the South Island as a foreign country. Other Titles - "Yes, we're thinking of doing the South Island - understand it's about 600 kilometres south of the Bombay Hill." Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 size photocopy. Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1981

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-336-067

Description: Shows a ill-looking figure lying on his back with his legs in the air. His torso is labelled 'North Island', and his legs are labelled 'South Island'. There is a drip transfering blood between his torso and his legs. Refers to New Zealand's low population growth, particularly in the South Island. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Extended Title - North Island. South Island. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card 190 x 270 mm Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- :Editorial cartoons. 1 July - 30 September 1992

Reference: H-110-043

Description: Shows a sheep and a lamb as buskers, half-buried in snow. The sheep is playing a trumpet. A bowl lies on the snow in front of them with a sign asking for bales of hay. Refers to stock feed shortages caused by the snow storms in the South Island Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1792 - 1939

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/10/5-Acc.37945

Description: Identifies: Enforced settlement (marooned sealers); Sealing station; Seasonal and permanent whaling stations; General farming settlement; General trade (flax, spars etc) and shipbuilding. Accompanying material: O L C (old land claim) 833.835 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen. Scale [ca. 1:1 584 000] 57 x 44 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: ca1922-ca1926

From: Barr, John Manson, 1904-1993 :Photographs of Joseph Gordon Coates

By: Coates, Marjorie Grace, 1892-1973

Reference: PA1-o-851

Description: Gordon Coates and his wife on tour. Most of these photographs relate to Coates' as MP and Minister of Public Works. Most of the events record the trials and tribulations of journeying to remote parts of New Zealand to open bridges, post offices, power plants etc. The album also records some of the social and recreational events associated with the tours. According to Gordon Coates' daughter, Mrs Sheila Pryde, this album belonged to Gordon Coates' wife Marjorie, who collected, and may have taken some of the snaps when she accompanied her husband travelling in various parts of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).