Places

Date: 1877-1908

By: Mackay, Alexander, 1833-1909

Reference: MS-Papers-2089

Description: Letters concerning land purchases and court hearings at Thames, Paeora, Te Aroha, Feilding, Greytown, Wakapuaka and Nelson; schedules of Maori rents in Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough and Westland Source of title - Supplied title Commissioner of Native Reserves; judge of Native Land Court, 1884-1901 Quantity: 4 folder(s) (ca 36 pieces). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts

Date: 1907-1918

From: Estate of Thomas Jackson Grant :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-0130-1

Description: Views of the Helvetia ostrich farm, Pukekohe, Te Kuiti, Parawai, Auckland, and Gallipoli and the Dardanelles during the 1914-1918 war. Auckland Grammar School record sent to Ephemera Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1901

From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands

Reference: D-007-002-15

Description: Mining machinery in the foreground with smoking chimneys and factory buildings, and the streets and houses of a township, with the sea beyond in the distance. The town shown is Thames with the Grahamstown goldfield and mine in the foreground. Compare E-068-017-2, Archibald Duddington Willis' sample Christmas card, 1886, title 'Grahamstown goldfield, Thames' for identification of the area Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 138 x 83 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-013

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm

Date: 1907 - 1913

By: Harry H Tombs Ltd; Art in New Zealand (Periodical)

Reference: Eph-A-POST-TM-1907/1913

Description: Christmas greeting cards sent by the telegraph messengers and postal workers, mainly in the South Taranaki district (Eltham, Stratford, Waverley, Patea, Opunake), but also from Wanganui, Woodville, Dannevirke, Marton, Foxton, Onehunga, Christchurch, Hokitika, Nelson, New Plymouth, Wellington, Feilding, Hastings and Thames. Quantity: 43 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Embossed cards, sizes varying up to 90 x 140 mm. Transfers: Collection accessioned in Ephemera, and photographic cards transferred from there to Photographic Archive PAColl-9266..

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Crombie, George, active 1900

Reference: PA4-0551

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Thames, showing `Queen of Beauty' mine, taken by Geo Crombie, ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Thames showing `Queen of Beauty' Mine; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Photograph by Geo Crombie Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [ca 1909]

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

Reference: PA1-q-103-019-1

Description: Price Bros foundry and wharf, Thames, Waikato. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1909. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - View of Thames, shewing Price Bros Foundry and Wharf Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1899-1900

From: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0092-59

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 volumes).

Date: 1900 - 1999

Reference: Eph-A-BILLIARDS-1900s

Description: Includes: 1907: Visit of H W Stevenson, world's billiard champion. Town Hall Wellington (Concert Chamber). 16-18 May [1907]. Pamphlet with lift-out double page 1967: 1966 (deferred) North Island Amateur Billiards and Snooker Championships to be held as part of the Thames Goldfield Centennial Celebrations. Thames War Memorial Hall and at the RSA Club. Billards 27-29 March; Snooker 30 March - 1 April 1967. [Programme] (2 copies) 1967: South Auckland Amateur Billiards Association (Inc). North Island Billiards and Snooker Championships. War Memorial Hall Thames, 27 March - 1 April 1967. Complimentary season ticket. 1972: Rothmans World Open Billiards Championship to be held in the Pukekohe War Memorial Town Hall, 27 November - 18 December 1972, by authority for the World Billiards Council, England. Official programme 1975: India v Ireland, sponsored by Leisure World Ltd. Billards and snooker. (With Paddy Morgan and Satish Mohan). New Zealand tour, 1 March - 11 April 1975. Official programme Other related material may be found at subject location INDOOR GAMES Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and photolithographs, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1889-1901

By: Brown, Thomas, active 1889-1901

Reference: MS-Papers-11848

Description: Comprises documents relating mainly to land purchases by Thomas Brown, purchased from various Maori vendors. Includes correspondence, statements and receipts from Brown's solicitors, Wynyard and Purchas, of Auckland. Some of the land documents also relate to Francis McCormick of Tararu. The Maori vendors include Raika Whakarongotai, Hera Puna, Mare Teretu and Wirihana Watene relating to land sold from the 'Pure' (aka 'Te Pure') Block, near the Waihou River. Also includes agreements relating to the Te Kopua Block. Language - Some receipts written in Maori Language - Most of the documents are in English Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Nadia Webster, Porirua, June 2014

Date: 1850, 1875-1909

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2653

Description: Further papers and correspondence of William Mortimer Baines in Auckland from family and friends, mainly concerning his business interests in land, timber and gold mining. Includes shipboard diary of his voyage to New Zealand in the Sir Edward Paget in 1850, reminiscences, a notebook and other papers. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 16 Mar 1909

From: Hall-Jones, William (Sir), 1851-1936 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5755-74

Description: Written from the Royal Hotel, Thames. Gives reasons for his resignation from Parliament. Other - Part of PP25-30 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1888, 1906

From: Grace family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7270-3

Description: Kooti Whenua Moari ki Mokau, 25 o nga ra o Aperira, 1889 notice; and file, Government valuations, the Maori Land Settlement Act 1905, land suitable for settlement in the Auckland Land District Language - Notice in Maori (1889) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1909-1990]

From: Norwood, Hugh, fl 1978-1999 : Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield and other matters

Reference: fMS-Papers-6604-2

Description: Clippings and copies of articles relating literary topics, especially Frank Sargeson, to Thames and Coromandel and buildings in Auckland Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1859-1907

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-1136

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1859-1907, predominantly dated 1900-1902. Series include: Akaroa (1876); 1901 Royal Tour of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, with events including review of volunteer rifles (Christchurch) and parade in Auckland; South African War departures, transport ships (including 'Tongariro'), and return celebrations (Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Christchurch), as well as training and volunteer camps (Woodend, Redcastle, and Newtown), peace announcement, and various related events and images; Birch Hill bush, logging, sawmill and bullock teams; flood damage to Ashley rail bridge; and potatoes being sent to South Africa. Events include opening of Lyttelton dock, jubilee celebration for deaf and dumb community, Amuri cattle sale at Culverden (with Captain R A Chaffey and Lieutenant Wynaham-Grey), wedding breakfast at Ashley, funeral in Rangiora [Mr A Foreman?], Lyttelton Regatta, Kaiapoi boat race, Grand National Steeplechase and races at Riccarton Racecourse, public school displays at Lancaster Park, wreck of the SS 'Taupo' at Greymouth (also 'Hesketh' run aground), crowd in Cathedral Square for Bishop Wilson's wedding, bazaar in Nelson, religious gathering in tent (Christchurch Showgrounds), Premiere Richard Seddon's visit to Kaiapoi, Rangiora sheep sale, J G Ward visit to Kaiapoi [Kaiapoihia monument?], Imperial Troops marching through Christchurch, Waikari sheepdog trials (judge W Rutherford), Rangiora Agricultural and Pastoral Show, washout at Cam flour mill (Leech Brothers), Governor Ranfurly at A & P Show, opening of Canterbury Hall by Ranfurly and Seddon, dispersal sale of R W Chapman's sheep, Mayor J Daly turning over first sod of Coronation Baths (Kaiapoi), unveiling of Queen Victoria Jubilee memorial, and Victoria Jubilee celebrations (Auckland). Identified figures include Reverend Garbett and Dr J E Weld, H Marton and Mark Scott, A S Clarkson (in South Africa), Rev Canon James Wilson, W Stapleforth (with dog), Colonel Stuart Newall, Miss Ethel Bell, Richard Seddon, E G Wakefield (bust), Pohipi and his wife, and Mr G Leech. Group photographs include: R J Alexander and [M J] Lynskey and Kaiapoi Borough School Cadets; Christchurch Hockey Club men's team; staff of A Moore coach builders, including H Land, J Jeffrey, A Moore, and W Baker; Kaiapoi Hinemoa Hockey Club (and instructor Mr Kinvig); Mrs W R May and troupe of entertainers from Richmond, Nelson; Amberley Caledonian Society; wedding of A Pearce and Miss Zuppicich; Colonel H Gordon and North Canterbury Volunteer Rifle group (including nurses), also Lieutenant A Horne with volunteers, and Lieutenant E B Millton, Captain H Lance, and Lieutenant Johnson of Cust Mounted Rifles; telegraph staff at Bloemfontein; Rev Wynter Blathwayt and St Stephen's Maori Church Choir; Rev H H Mathias and Kaiapoi Church Sunday School teachers and church choir members (including Estelle Wilson); Mrs J G Blackwell (chaperone) and campers on Sumner trip; Archdeacon B Dudley, Fanny Dudley, and Mrs Dudley at Earnley (Rangiora); Kaiapoi football [rugby] team; Dr H C Parsons and family; staff at Kaiapoi Woollen Mills; crew of the ship 'Discovery' (Tuahiwi visit); Rangiora Oddfellows; Mahaanui Maori Council; Rev Nicholls wedding (Ravenstone); and Wesleyan Church Conference. Also soldiers Rule, Moody, and Sanson (departing for South Africa). Buildings include Canterbury Provincial Chambers, Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, Kaiapoi Methodist Church, East Oxford Church, Johnsons Building (Rangiora), Press agency (Kaiapoi), Red Lion Hotel (Oxford), Masonic Lodge (Rangiora), Lyttelton Times and Warner's Commercial Hotel (Christchurch), Building and Land Society (Christchurch), Moore's Beehive store, round house with turf roof and punga trunk walls (Water of Leith, Dunedin), Rangiora Post Office, ruins of early Rangiora house, Kaiapoi Borough School, H Martin's house (site of murder) and St Thomas's Church (East Eyreton), Boys High School (Christchurch), Mrs Lamhert's house (Jack's Pass), Canterbury Museum, Bank of New South Wales and church (Amberley), Waiau ferry [terminal?], creamery (Woodend), A S Clarkson's office and Presbyterian church (Rangiora), Wilson residence Marston (Kaiapoi), Kaiapoi Railway Station, and Colonial Bank of New Zealand (Rangiora). Interior of Kaiapoi church (featuring decorated font) and Wellington Public Library. Also garden at Beauthorne. Miscellaneous images include Maori scenes [ca 1860s], motorised quadricycle, Purau Bay, unidentified sports team [rugby?], J Pearson's wool being carted and shearing at Burnt Hill, High Street (Rangiora), ambulance tent for mounted rifles (Tuahiwi), boats moored at Lyttelton, hot springs at Hamner, Boyd and Kier contractors, trappe bridge (Kaiapoi), brass band outside Mrs Moorhouse's dining rooms, Manchester Street and Hagley Park (Christchurch), Napier, Thames, Ashley Bridge protective works, race at sports day, and unidentified men on railway jigger. Illustrations include various scenes of early Kaiapoi, Queen Victoria portrait, and soldier [South African War?] by R Caton of Woodville. Named photographers of collected images are Burton Brothers and [Deale?]. A small number of photographs in album are hand coloured. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: [1907-1912]

From: Matson family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8175-05

Description: Correspondence with J W O'Sullivan; prospectuses; papers relating to shares etc May Queen SQC [Special Quartz Claim] was operating in 1912. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1908-1912]

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

Reference: PA1-q-103

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, including family portraits, areas where he lived, Petone and the Petone Fire Brigade, railways, the Hutt Valley, Wellington, and areas in the upper North Island. The family photographs show his immediate family (his wife Laura (nee Zinckgraf), and children William Albert and Phyllis Mary); groups including his father and mother Charles and Mary Ann Godber, his brother Harry Leonard and wife Annie and their daughter Constance Alice, and Laura's brother Charles Albert Zinckgraf. Godber was a fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade, and there are photographs of groups of firemen and fire fighting equipment, and displays of methods of fire fighting. Associated with Godber's work with New Zealand Railways, and particularly at the Petone Railway Workshops, there are views of various workshop buildings, groups of railway workers; one of M J Mack (General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand); images of damage to rolling stock after railway accidents; trains; the Raurimu Spiral; railway viaducts; logging railways; and railway stations. Photographs taken in the northern part of the North Island include coal mines, rock formations, hot springs at Te Aroha and Kamo; Whangarei and the Wairua Falls; suburbs of Auckland including Newmarket, Remuera, Parnell, Onehunga, and Ellerslie Race Course. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 110 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram covers; 30.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: 12 Feb 1987

From: NZOHA Electricity Centenary Oral History Project Stages I, II and III

By: Mill, Alexander, 1905-2003

Reference: OHInt-0003/07

Description: Gives some family background and early childhood information including early memories of Kelburn, the cable car, parents' religion and personalities, their attitudes to alcohol, smoking, discipline and politics. Describes early education, the gaining of a junior free place to go to Wellington College (unusual for a son of a tradesman), some of the teachers at the College, discipline at school. Mentions the minimal impact of World War I on family life and explains call up system, the flu epidemic of 1918 with the funeral corteges and trip to U.K. with mother in 1919. Describes apprenticeship with Harry Moult & Co. Ltd - a lift installer, state of lift industry at time. Outlines history of electrical supply in Wellington and mentions the Ford Motor Co. building in Courtenay Place and the building of Model T Ford cars. Recalls working for A.S. Paterson & Co, late 1920s, as estimating clerk then as registered electrician and refers to Mahakipawa Gold Mine, Marlborough Power Board and Blenheim Power Board. Describes working for father's electrical business during the depression in 1930s, living standards, payment, riots, problems with local electrical authorities. Describes joining ASEA Electric NZ Limited as a junior engineer, Miss Ethel Ford - book-keeper, and advising the Whakatane Paper Mills on electrical equipment. Outlines work as Borough Engineer at Thames Borough Council, refers to F.T.M. Kissel (Chief Engineer, Hydro Electric Branch), the problems of being in charge of blackouts in Thames (World War II), rationing of electricity. Refers to work as Consumer Engineer, Electrical Branch, Wellington City Council and recalls power restrictions, the relationship between local supply authorities and New Zealand Electricity Department, the Government takeover of all generating sources, the reticulation system in 1949, trams and trolley buses; mentions various personalities i.e. Leslie B. Hutton, General Manager; R.S. Maunder, City Electrical Engineer; J.K. Hooker, General Manager. Mentions religious discrimination at the Wellington City Council in 1940s and impact of city councillors on the Department (Stewart Hardy). Describes role as Director of the Electrical Development Association in late 1960s, the background to the setting up of the Association, relationship with supply authorities, information supply. Recalls post retirement years as Editor of Live Lines, attending various boards and conferences. Refers to background to the introduction of New Zealand wiring regulations in 1967. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Tauranga Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Mill's home at 32 Freyberg Street, Otumoetai, Tauranga Accompanying material - Copy of "Retiring from industry - Alec Mill", from Live Lines, April 10, 1971 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001443 - OHC-001445 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0222. Black and white photograph:-. Alec Mill, c1932. Copies of black and white photographs:-. Dorothy and Alec Mill, Golden Wedding, 1982. Alec Mill, 1971. Alec Mill, 1912 Search dates: 1905 - 1987

Date: 7 and 11 Dec 1984; 25 Feb 1985 - 07 Dec 1984 - 25 Feb 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Milne, Grant Raglan, 1904-1994

Reference: OHInt-0070/27

Description: Grant Milne describes family background, immigration of family to New Zealand, father's attitude to alcohol, childhood in Thames pre 1920, industry in Thames, his primary education, the influenza epidemic, his first interest in radio. Details being employed by Post Office as an engineering trainee while at Auckland University, importance of morse to the Post Office installing telegraph and telephone systems, carrier systems, opening of the Marton Exchange in 1931, long working hours, Arthur Gibbs - Chief Engineer Auckland, salary, installing telephone systems in Dannevirke, special problems with New Zealand telephone system. Discusses rural party lines and New Zealand developments in this field, O'Leary and introduction of the 'Phantom System', relationship with Head Office, investigations in United Kingdom into distant dialling in 1944 (New Zealand already ahead in trunk dialling), costs of equipment, telephone developments in New Zealand, the newness of New Zealand equipment, Post Office exams, laboratory testing in Wellington in 1933, the Murray Multiplex System, and new equipment in Auckland in 1935. Discusses effects on family of moves within Post Office, belief that Post Office had low priority in Cabinet, various Postmasters General - Sir Joseph Ward, Sir James Parr, W Nosworthy, J B Donald, Adam Hamilton, Fred Jones, P C Webb, Fred Hackett, W J Broadfoot, Tom Shand, Mike Moohan, T L Hayman, A E Kinsella, and Directors General - A T Markman, George McNamara, J G Young, H M Patrict, Phil Cryer, Charles McFarlane, Dawson Donaldson, over the years with various anecdotes, effect of World War II on Post Office staff, the rural automatic service, broadcasting service, shortages of engineers, the distant toll dialling, the future of the Post Office. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Clark Street, Khandallah, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000754 - OHC-000757; OHC-000759; OHC-000770 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5.52 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 121. Black and white photographs as follows:. Grant Milne, ca 1961. Grant Milne, 1970 Search dates: 1904 - 1985

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001164-G

Description: The Women's Home (District Homes), Thames. A two storied wooden building surrounded by a formal garden. `The Women's Home' is written across the front and a large sign at the roof level reads `District Homes'. Paddocks can be seen beyond the trees at the back. The Men's Home is situated next door in the same grounds (to the right). Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Women's Home. Thames. 1407D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches