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Borieson, C. W., fl. 1889 :Blocks 1, 3, & 6 Levin, 9, Horowhenua Block [map with ms ann...
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
Avenue Nurseries :Roses [Catalogues. 1956, 1960s, 1979-1995].
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.
New Zealand library applications
From: Carnegie, Andrew 1835-1919 : New Zealand library applications
Reference: fMS-038
Hinde, M :Photographs and postcard of the Levin area
Date: 1911, 11 November 1918
By: Hinde, M, active 1991
Reference: PAColl-1851
Description: Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.
Birrell album 3
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
[Posters and other ephemera relating to emergencies and civil defence in New Zealand. 1...
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.
Levin A & P Show, Horowhenua County
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).
Levin Jubilee and a South Island holiday
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).
Folders in L R Wishart's shirt factory, Levin - Photograph taken by Ray Pigney
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
Holmes, A C, fl 1916-1924 : Papers
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.
Maori place-names of New Zealand (vol 16)
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).
New Zealand places
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
Wellington Regional Council :Electoral record in the vicinity of the Northern Boundary ...
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.
Job 1041 - House in Levin, for J Leckie
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).
2/2 Papers relating to political career - Local issues
Date: [1890-1943]
From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers
Reference: Series-2239
The Chronicle - Special jubilee supplement commermorating the 50th anniversary of the f...
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).
[Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in places beginni...
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.
Women clothing workers from Rixen Manufacturing Company, Levin, being read messages of ...
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
[Creator unknown] :Plan of part of Horowhenua Block [ms map]. [19--?]
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
The kin of Mary Jane and Alexander McKay
Date: 1864-1919
From: Stewart, Frances E V, fl 2005 : Histories of the Ranby, Withersgill, Burr and McKay families
Reference: MS-Papers-5229-3
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).