Places

Date: ca 1930s

From: Hird, Edward James, 1924-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7754-2

Description: Loose photographs extracted from album (PA1-o-1549). Includes photographs of a hill climbing sports car event, sports car club meeting, Wellington beaches, Wellington suburbs and housing developments, and the construction of a house. Mr Hird was an electrical designer, involved in the development of television, designing radios for Sir Edmund Hillary in Antarctica, and was apparently in radio surveillance in WW2. His father taught at Seatoun school. Mr Hird lived most of his life in the house at Mantell Street. See 'Freedom' newspaper, 25 Nov 1953, p.6 re his involvement in developing television. He was also a jazz musician. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1919

By: Bacica, Marion, active 2001

Reference: PA1-o-1024

Description: Album of motor tour through Otira, Aitkens, Ross, Franz Josef, Lake Kanieri, Westport and Hokitika in Christmas 1919. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1960s-1970s]

From: Nicholls, Trevor, 1929- :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-7487

Description: Colour slides of various parts of New Zealand, taken 1950s-1970s by Trevor Nicholls. Includes: 1-2. Kiwis, Taradale, 1960s, 3. Atiamuri, Morris 1000, 4. Cutting de Bretts to ? Range, Morris 1100, 1964, 5-6. Taupo Lake front, 7-8. Rogue Gore Road to Kinloch (Poihipi), 1970s, 9-10. Wairakei 1950s, 11. Taupo houses 1950s, 12. Topdressing, Linden 1950s, 13. Looking over Wahi Village, Taupo 1970s, 14-15. Ruapehu 1970s, 16. Ngauruhoe 1950s, 17-18. Aratiatia 1950s, 19. Huka Falls 1960s, 20. From Moult's, Paraparaumu 1950s, 21. Mudpool, 22. Bully Pt, Taupo, 23 Orakei korake? helicopter 1960s-1970s, 24. Cenotaph. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1956 - 1960

By: Hansen, Neil Gilbert, 1918-2002; Tauranga County (N.Z.). County Council. County Engineer's Department

Reference: MapColl-832.16gmbd/[1956?]/Acc.9507

Description: Drawn on a published map of Tauranga County, Bay of Plenty, the annotations depict surface condition of roads (sealed and metal roads). See book 'Tauranga County, 1945-1989 : the story about the post World War II years, of wide ranging development until local government reorganisation' by Neil Gilbert Hansen. (Tauranga, Western Bay of Plenty District Council, 1995). Base map: 'Tauranga County' Survey Licence no. 1954/10. Manuscript ink pen annotation reads 'Hansen, Tauranga County - black pencil - sealed roads, red pencil - metalled.' Catalogue card: '..made by Tauranga County Engineer for preparation of Automobile Association map.' Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil on paper, linen backed, scale [1: 126,720], 36 x 75 cm.

Date: [ca 1940s]

From: Hird, Edward James, 1924-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1549

Description: Photograph album relating to Edward James Hird. Includes portraits of school boys, a man standing in some dunes, dwellings, a man standing beside a car in a Taihape street, Pinus radiata forest, a car park possibly at a geothermal region, and railway bridge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 180 x 250 mm

Date: [ca 1900s-1910s]

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1555

Description: Photographs relating to Satchell family. Includes photographs of family members, recreation by rivers, tug-of-war game, automobile travel, picnics, golf playing, pheasant hunters and friends. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 165 x 210 mm

Date: ca 1926

By: Martin, Bob, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-8053

Description: Photographs taken of New Zealand Cities, towns, and thermal regions, during a motor tour in New Zealand in about 1926 Quantity: 16 Album leaves containing 124 black and white prints.

Date: [ca 1960-1969]

From: Horsman, John Irvin, 1925-1993: Photograph albums, chiefly relating to his world travels as a radio officer for the merchant navy

Reference: PA1-o-1907

Description: An album of photographic prints compiled by John Horsman, chiefly relating to road trips with friends in New Zealand and to sightseeing in Japan. Images taken between 1960 to 1969; mostly by Horsman. - One set of images shows Horsman with others [probably former shipmates and a fellow teacher at Okaihau District High School] on holiday in the Bay of Islands, shows: caravaning, beach and bush scenes around Paihia, a ship in the bay, Waitangi flagpole, Cortina and Consul cars. - One set of images of the 'Mon-Star Rally' and the 'Great Northern Rally' holidays shows roadside scenes and beaches around Northland. Also shows various hotels and country pubs: including Rodney Hotel, Warkworth Hotel, Hukerenui Hotel, Okaihau Hotel, Kaitaia Hotel, Awanui Hotel, White Swan Hotel. - One set of images of a road trip via Wellington, Hawkes Bay, Bay of Plenty and Auckland shows: the Picton ferry in Wellington heads, Te Mata Peak views, a viaduct, East Coast farmland, Waikato River, Meremere Power station, Hamilton, Wairakei geothermal power station, Huka Falls, dams on the Waikato River, plus logging trucks and 'Welcome' sign for Tokoroa. - One set of images show sightseeing activites with Japanese woman Midori around shrines, parks, and street in Japan, including: Sika deer, tori and shrines, and Sarusawa Lake at Nara: Motomachi street, geisha [possibly maiko], tori and street scenes in Kobe. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Spiral bound Warwick school sketch book, 27.5 x 37.5cm

Date: 29 Dec 1926-13 Feb 1927

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-03

Description: Outward correspondence from Eric Tyndale-Biscoe to his parents Cecil Earl and Blanche Violet chiefly on the topic of a motoring and camping trip he made around the North Island of New Zealand. Letters include description of train travel, camping, trout fishing, driving and road conditions (including other traffic, punctures, getting bogged down, and pot holes), huts "swaggers whare", Waitomo Caves and glow worms, Maori history, manuka, tui birds, and swimming in lakes and rivers. Places he visits include Mokoia, Awakino, Te Kuiti, Waitomo, Hamilton, Tauranga, Whakatane, Opotiki, Gisborne, Lake Waikaremoana, Wairoa, Lake Tutira, and Napier. Also talks about staying in with the Reeves family [Hastings? Havelock North?], teaching, and preparation for his departure from New Zealand. Names mentioned are the Mellish family in Tauranga and the [Gordon?] family (farmers in rural Waikato). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Pen drawn maps show the route taken on the first leg of the journey from Mokoia to Awakino and the second leg from Awakino to Tauranga. Also includes pen illustrations of Mount Taranaki and bush, a tent, and a fishing fly.

Date: 1906

By: Sorrell, Charles, 1855-1932

Reference: PAColl-D-0794

Description: Three photographs, possibly all taken by Charles Sorrell in 1906. View overlooking Napier with Ashton's Cabinet Works in foreground and Clive Square in the middle distance. Opposite Ashton's Cabinet Works is a large open space and children at play. Several churches can be seen (Trinity Methodist Church and St Patrick's Catholic Church); Caledonian Hotel and Provincial Hotel; and a primary school near Clive Square. Tennyson Street is in the lower lefthand corner and Emerson Street runs parallel to it in the middle distance. Napier Technical School, a large two-storey brick building. Group of ten men are standing outside, some wearing workmen's aprons. View of the Petane Valley from Napier-Taupo road. There is a car in the foreground with a driver and three passengers. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Petane Valley. Napier-Taupo Rd. Protected 17/9/06 Sorrell Photo. Napier Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 3 x 159 x 205 mm mounted on card 530 x 250 mm

Date: 1938

From: Kelly, Raymond Alwyn, 1917-1998 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1635

Description: Photograph album relating to holiday photographs of Christmas vacation in 1938 at Chaso's Joint in Tariki, Taranaki Inscriptions: [Inside front cover] Holiday shots during Xmas vacation 1938 at Chaso's Joint in Tariki, Taranaki Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album 20 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1927-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-141

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance, 1924-1951. Subjects include: `Operation Oyster' at Bluff, Jun 1950; Lewis Pass (Maruia Springs), Jun 1950; stranding of `Wahine' at Maseia Island and rescue by naval tug HMAS Emu, Aug 1951; Theatre Guild on tour at Raumati Beach, Feb 1950; South Seas voyage of Nelson yacht `Blue Seas'; New Zealand Grand Prix held at Ohakea, 1950; Mr Kelly and sketching class in Hagley Park, (undated); National Time Keeping (Master clock), 1951; Miss Marjorey Hurrey showing children Maori carving at Auckland War Memorial Museum, 1950; making snowman at The Hermitage; motoring through kauris in Waipoua State Forest; trout fishing at Hamurana Spring, N-W shore of Lake Rotorua, 1939. Also: ANZAC Day parade, Auckland, 1940; camp site at Western Springs, 1949; haymaking at Tipapa Station (undated); monument at Okarito; Waipori hydro-electric works, 1930; Fernside Garden bridge; newly erected hut on Mt Ruapehu erected by Manawatu Tramping Club, 1950; `dangerous' level-crossing at Woodside, 1927; Otaki sanatorium, 1929; Women's Hospital at Hanmer, 1931; party on horseback crossing Doubtful River to inspect proposed route over Lewis Saddle, Jun 1929; aerial view of tennis courts (Christchurch?); yachts at Lyttelton; old house built by William & John Deans (1843) in grounds of Riccarton House, 1949; Waiheke Island, Jan 1949; etc. Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1903-ca 1906], [ca 1940s-1960s]

From: Mosen, Neville Herbert, 1914-2004: Photographs

By: Bell Brothers (Firm); Billens, Henry, 1846-1936

Reference: PAColl-9924-4

Description: Photographs collected and taken by Neville Mosen, including ones of Neville and his family. Comprises: Four photographs taken 1903-ca 1906. One of a wedding dated 1903. Three by Marton photographers (Neville's wife's family came from Marton. Her mother's maiden name was Nicol). One by Henry Billens that possibly shows a household dramatic group. Two by Bell Brothers: a portrait of young women, possibly a school group with their teacher. It is labelled "Etta Nuttall. Winter 5 Harry St Tauranga (Henderson)". The other Bell Brothers image (damaged) shows the opening of the Marton Bowling Club Season, October 10, 1906. 15 images taken circa 1940s-1960s relating to Neville Mosen, his wife, their families and friends, including ones at the Mangawhero River and the Mangaturuturu Falls and one of Neville and wife Vera on the front step of their first home in Raetihi. One of a group outside 'Norian' the beehive house in New Plymouth taken circa early 1960s. Seven of a trip made by Neville to Western Australia in the 1960s. Includes images of a car packed for a journey trip and exteriors of hotels he stayed in. Other - Information in square brackets on back of some images was provided by Neville's son Brian. Manuscript material and photographs relating to Frank Nicol are held by Archives Central in Rangitikei District Council Collection. See RDC 00087:6/N/3; RDC 00087:11/N/8; RDC 00087:12/N7; A/2013/43:8 - 15. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9529

Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of the Wellington 5th Regiment (1915), Wellington 33rd Reinforcements (B Coy), 14th Annual NZ University Tournament (Auckland, 1915), Public Trust Annual Picnic (1920), Nelson College 2nd XV, and Victoria University College 'B' Hockey Team (1919). Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1928-1936

By: Hames, Bernard Raymond, 1903-

Reference: PA1-o-1659

Description: Includes photographs of motor tours throughout New Zealand ca 1928-1936, undertaken by Bernard Hames, including in an Austin 7 named Pediculus and another vehicle named Baby. Also includes photographs from Methodist Church conferences and summer schools attended by Hames, including both formal and casual portraits as well as scenes of sport and leisure. Also includes scenic photographs, including photographs of the crater lakes of Mt Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe (the latter during a period of volcanic activity) and other locations in the Tongariro National Park, as well as a large number of other scenic locations and urban areas in both the North and South Islands. Also includes views of Greymouth and other areas affected by the 1929 Murchison earthquake. Appraisal and scheduling information - 3 postcards of England & Africa, and group portrait photograph in pouch commemorating laying of foundation stone at Wesleyan Methodist Church, Vereeniging, South Africa, were not retained Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Transfers: To Book Collections - 1 book entitled `Greetings from Auckland New Zealand', printed by Dawson Printing Company, Auckland.

Date: 1914-1915, 1923-1924, 1950s

From: Unwin, Diana Mary, 1923-2014 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9535

Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of Unwin family at Orari, Timaru, October 1923 - April 1924. Views of Netley Hospital, Southampton, in 1915 Decorated cars in motor carnival, 1914 Central Otago motor tour, ca 1956 Portraits of Diana Unwin as a child Unwin family swimming in river. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on album leaf.

Date: [ca 1920]

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

Reference: 1/2-000500-G

Description: Motoring up the Meremere Hill, Tauharepu Kitia. Photograph taken between 1915 and 1930 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Foot of Meremere Hill. Tauharepu Kitia. No 3730 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910-1930]

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

Reference: 1/2-000396-G

Description: View of a man in an open tourer parked on the road after fording the upper reaches of the Waiaua River. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Crossing the upper reaches. Waiawa River. No 3728 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [192-?]

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

Reference: 1/2-000397-G

Description: Open tourer parked on a corner at Meremere hill with a man in an overcoat standing beside the car. The area is surrounded by bush. Photograph taken by William A Price in 1920s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Beauty spot. Meremere Hill. No 3727 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches