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Department of Lands and Survey :Views of Chateau Tongariro and district
Date: Early 1950s
By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey
Reference: PAColl-6552
Description: 13 images (and 5 duplicate file prints) of Chateau Tongariro and the nearby roads. Includes the junction of state highways 47 and 48 with a chrysler parked at the side of the road, and one of the Tongariro National Park sign. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015096 to 015108 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
A trip to Kaikoura.
Date: April 1923
From: Loftus, Helen :Photographs of climbing Mt Tapuaenuku and a trip to Kaikoura
By: Gunn, George Alexander, 1895-1968
Reference: PA1-o-1218
Description: Record of a trip made by George Alexander Gunn and friends along the Kaikoura coast to Kaikoura and south to about Oaro. Photographed by George Alexander Gunn in April 1923 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Morrison, John M, fl 1883-1951 :Photographs of Takapuna and Milford
Date: [ca 1909-1925]
By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951
Reference: PAColl-6494
Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.
Album of photographs depicting Joseph Gordon Coates and others on tours to various part...
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).
New Zealand scenery - Rotorua District
Date: 1946-1959
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-173
Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Government Tourist Gardens and Bath House at Rotorua; pataka at Whakarewarewa; tourists at Whakarewarewa (including couple being welcomed to the village & showing their Volkswagen car in foreground); Lake Rotorua; Lake Rotoma; Lake Rotoehu; Hongis Track Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Creator unknown :Photographs of road-building
Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]
Reference: PAColl-7364
Description: Photographs of road building or maintenance, such as straightening curves, on the following highways: Great South Road at Huntly; laying concrete on the Paparua County section of the Christchurch-Dunedin highway; bitumen surfacing on the Kamo town section of the Whangarei-Kawakawa highway; bituminous concrete paving on the Halswell County section of the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; bituminous concrete laying on the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; Great South Road Mercer-Ohinewai section near Long Swamp with workmen's camps in the distance; penetration work on the Waitara-Pukearuhe section of the Auckland-Wellington via Taranaki highway; Goat valley section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopua-Raglan highway looking towards Thames; improved alignment on the Kawhia County section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; the Leslie's Gully section of the Hamilton-Rotorua highway looking towards Tamahere; Auckland-Wellington highway near Wanganui; improved curve on the New Plymouth-Kaimata highway; Great South Road at Long Swamp; Great South Road at Taupiri Gorge; the Rangiriri Hills deviation of the Great South Road; Hamilton-Rotorua highway near Tamahere showing bitumen on tar sealing; Whatawhata-Raglan highway from near Whatawhata; Rotorua-Whakatane highway; widening work on the Coromandel main highway; Auckland-Wellington highway near Lepperton; bitumen surface on Saddle Hill on the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; bitumen concrete at Halswell on the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopu-Raglan highway; Rangiriri deviation. Also included are three unidentified bridges, one built by J T Julian & Son; the bridge at Motueka; a Rotorua County Council speed limit sign on the Ngongotaha bridge; Waitakaruru bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; McCormick's bridge on the Thames Coast highway; replacement of King's Creek bridge on the Gisborne-Napier highway; the Karangahake bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; and railway carts being loaded at Mosgile quarry for the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway. Arrangement: Artifical collection although some of the prints are from the same source (eg 12-004447 and 004448). Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-56..
Interview with George and Dave Beckett
Date: 19 Jul 1977
From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford
By: Beckett, George Frederick David Isaiah, 1895-1983; Beckett, David Isaiah, 1903-1984
Reference: OHInt-0470/02
Description: George and Dave Beckett recall arriving in Rotorua in 1913 and 1914 respectively. George Beckett recalls driving the solicitor, Mr Rhodes and his wife, round the North Island in a Cadillac and then operating a taxi service for the Rhodes. Mentions getting engaged to Mabel Smith with whose family he was boarding. Recalls joining up for World War I and getting extended leave because of family sickness. Describes driving for Rotorua Motors (RM), operating a service to Whakatane and a mail run to Taupo. Describes the difficulties of running some of these routes. Mentions fascines, the punt at Te Teko and the Rangitaiki swamp. Comments that the people running coaches made difficulties for those running cars. Describes being made to swear an oath about a trip on which he was driving. Describes how this trip was to get Rua Kenana out from Ruatahuna. Talks about Constables Cummings and Grant, Mr Snodgrass, the engineer, and Mr Dyer, the magistrate. Describes how a second trip was made with seventy men and Rua and one of his sons were roped together and brought out. Recalls that after Rua's imprisonment he drove him from Ruatoki to Rotorua on a number of occasions in the White (car). Discusses the road to Tauranga. Comments on the low death rate in Rotorua from the 1918 flu epidemic and attributes it to the effect of sulphur. Describes boarding houses and old homes in the area. Discusses surviving the flu in Germany after the war and how he was cured. Dave Beckett describes the motorcycle club in Rotorua known as the Autocycle and Athletic Club. Recalls an athletic meeting in 1922 or 1923 with Bill Costello, Epi Shalfoon, Doug Sheaf and others competing in running, jumping and wood-chopping events. Mentions motorbike riders Steve Whitehead, Percy Coleman, Locker McCready and Stan Blackmore and Indian, AJS, Douglas, BSA and Harley Davidson motorbikes. Describes the sidecars for motorbikes known as Nash sidecars made by Percy Nash of Auckland. Talks about selling motorbikes to the forestry workers in the bush. Recalls being the longest serving BSA agent in New Zealand, starting in 1917 at the age of fourteen and finishing at the age of seventy three or seventy four. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2851.
Hawks Crag, Buller Gorge, New Zealand
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-1108-F
Description: Panoramic view of the Buller Gorge with a car parked under Hawks Crag, centre right. The line of the road is clear from power poles amongst trees across the image, river to the left of the road. Bush-clad hills to right and left of the road. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1109 for view just beyond this one Inscriptions: No marginal notes - Hawks Crag No. 468. Buller Gorge. New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.9 cm
Wilkinson album 2
Date: [between 1925 and 1927]
From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926- :Photograph albums depicting the ashphalting of roads in Wellington
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955
Reference: PA1-q-268
Description: Photographs taken between 1925 and 1927 depicting the ashphalting of roads in the Wellington region. Includes photographs taken for the Wellington City Council by Frank Giles Barker. Inserted in a pocket inside the back cover there are three loose photographs showing the Hutt Road alongside Wellington Harbour. Photographs of the Hutt Road include those alongside the harbour, and also some of the "Main Hutt Road" in Lower and Upper Hutt. Most of the photographs have good captions, with the title at the head of each one which reads "Asphaltic concrete pavement". Other - Some of the original negatives, from which these photographs were printed, are amongst the Wellington City Council collection at PAColl-5448. Other Titles - Asphaltic concrete pavement Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cloth cover, entitled "Photographs", 65 black paper pages of black and white photographs; 28.5 x 38.5 cm
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of road construction
Date: ca 1924
Reference: PAColl-7325
Description: Copy negatives of photographs in an album. The Mimi valley deviation on the New Plymouth to Te Kuiti highway; the road alongside Porirua harbour showing submerged telegraph poles; men spreading and rolling gravel on the Gisborne to Wairoa highway at Morere; men laying concrete on the Christchurch to Timaru highway; number of horse-drawn carts on a riverbed being loaded with shingle; and horse-drawn scoops collecting shingle from a riverbed for the Hamilton to Rotorua highway. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003415 to 003420 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
Wilkinson album 1
Date: [between 1925 and 1926]
From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926- :Photograph albums depicting the ashphalting of roads in Wellington
By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Maybury, Horace R, active 1907-1943
Reference: PA1-q-267
Description: Photographs taken between 1925 and 1926 depicting the ashphalting of roads in the Wellington region. Includes photographs taken for the Wellington City Council by Frank Giles Barker and Horace R Maybury. Other - Original negatives, from which some of these photographs were printed, are amongst the Welllington City Council collection at PAColl-5448 Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s) on album pages. Physical Description: Album with beige fabric cover and 58 brown paper pages, entitled "Album"; 27.5 x 38.5 cm
Hawks Crag, Buller Gorge, New Zealand
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-1290-F
Description: Panoramic view of the Buller Gorge with a car parked under Hawks Crag, on the far left. There is a tight bend in the river with Dee Point jutting into the river. There is a man standing on a ledge looking over the river on the far right of the image. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: No marginal notes - "Hawks Crag" - Buller Gorge - New Zealan. No. 949 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 131.9 cm
On the road to Franz Josef Glacier, South Westland, New Zealand
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-1206-F
Description: Panoramic view of a bend in the gravel road through bush-clad hills between Hokitika and Franz Josef Glacier. The back of a car is seen on the left (number plate WN-7640). Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] On the road to Franz Josef from Hokitiki [i.e. Hokitika]; Photographer's title on negative - On the road to Franz Josef Glacier. Sth Westland. New Zealand. No. 497 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 119.5 cm
Car on the road, Mangamahu
Date: [late 1930s]
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-091738-F
Description: View down a gravel road with Zeila Wells, wife of the photographer, standing beside a car, photographed by Robert E Wells, probably in the late 1930s. Caption - Mangamahu Rd: Zeila and car on Rd - white pine bush [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Car on an unidentified road, Punakaiki
Date: [ca 1940]
From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery
Reference: 1/2-009937-F
Description: Photograph of a car on an unidentified road, Punakaiki, circa 1940. Shows a car facing the camera, parked on the road. Photograph taken by Thelma Rene Kent. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
A car with four people parked outside a two storied house at Kaitoke, 1923
Date: 1923
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-1696-1/2-G
Description: Four people with a car (possibly Chevrolet), the hood up, parked outside a two-storied house at Kaitoke. The photographer's wife, Laura Godber, is sitting in the back seat on the left. There is an unidentified man standing on the left of the car, a woman next to Laura Godber in the back seat, and a young girl standing on the running board on the right. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1923. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 74. House. Kaitoke. 1923. Car in front) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
View of part of Paremata
Date: ca 1930s
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-046866-G
Description: View of part of Paremata, Porirua, looking towards the hills. Houses can be seen below where the photographer is standing, and a car is travelling along the road past the houses. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith during the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Queue of cars driving on newly sealed road, Wainuiomata
Date: 25 Mar 1964
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: PAColl-7796-22
Description: Queue of cars driving on a newly sealed road at Wainuiomata, 25 March 1964. The Hutt County Council was using motorists to consolidate the chips in the new surface. Shows Wainuiomata houses in the background. Photograph taken by an unidentified Evening Post photographer. Caption - More than two miles of mostly irate drivers doing their morning chore in Wainuiomata again today...The Hutt County Councul is using motorists to consolidate the chips on the new sealing by blocking off two lanes to force all traffic to make a 5 mph crawl over the 5000 (NZ Pound) surface..." (Evening Post, 25 March 1964) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.6 x 21.4 cm
Lunch on roadside, blackberrying
Date: 1947
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-091186-F
Description: Wells family having lunch by the roadside while out picking blackberries. A young boy is standing beside the car drinking from a bottle. An adult can be seen sitting in the front seat. Photographed by Robert E Wells in March or April 1947. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches
View of Lowry Bay, Eastbourne
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-046149-G
Description: View of Lowry Bay, Eastbourne. There is a road twisting its way around the bay, with a horse and cart and a car travelling away from the photographer, who is above the road. There is also another car parked on the side of the road facing away from the camera. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).