Places

Date: 1956-1969

From: Bateson, Frank Maine, 1909-2007 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8405-1

Description: Comprises correspondence re the establishment of Mount John Observatory. Much of the correspondence is with American astronomers. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Dr F M Bateson, 2005

Date: 1969 - 1975

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-067-056/061

Description: Includes details of joinery fittings for Mr Green's office, site and drainage plan 1975, part plan of the ground floor 1975, perspective drawing of the exterior (undated). Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 580 x 750 mm.

Date: [ca 1961-1969]

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PAColl-8016

Description: Photographs relating to Dennis's work with Tourist Hotel Corporation, particularly Mt Cook National Park and with Cook Islands Hotels Limited. Includes photographs of the Hermitage and a model of a Rarotongan hotel. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: [1960s]

From: Bateson, Frank Maine (Dr), 1909-2007 :Photographs relating to astronomy in New Zealand

Reference: PA6-746

Description: Panorama from the summit of Mount St Mary looking from east through south to west. Mount Bitterness left centre. Site for airstrip to east. Hawkdun Range to west. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time in the 1960s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 72 x 7.2 cm Provenance: Donated by Audrey Walsh, Australia, 2007 Transfers: Transfer information - From Manuscripts : MS-Group-0826 : Bateson, Frank Maine (Dr), 1909-2007 : Papers. See also Cartographic and Drawings & Prints..

Date: 1963 - 1969

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

By: Warren & Mahoney Architects

Reference: Plans-2006-058-614

Description: Shows a floor plan of the ground floor and first floor of a flat, with labels for living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedrooms. Original file number was 004.09.05.405 Quantity: 1 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Diazo print, 545 x 735 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7822

Description: Transparency slides of Mount Cook National Park, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 15 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7805

Description: Transparency slides of various locations, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3427

Description: Views of Dunedin, its streets, monuments, and buildings. An airport and NAC passenger aircraft on the tarmac. Two views of Christchurch which include the Avon River and the Scott Memorial. There are also views of an unidentified country town and an unidentified lake or inlet. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time in the 1960s. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1965 - 1969

By: Lake Benmore Tourist Company

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Canterbury-1960s-01

Description: Pamphlet advertising jetboat trips on Lake Benmore in a Falcon turbo jet boat, an illustration of which is shown on the frnt cover. The inside has factual information about the Benmore Dam, and the variety of tours available.The back page shows a map of the region including the Waitaki Arm and the Ahuriri Arm of the lake, and the location of Otematata Village. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded pamphlet 212 x 133 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2009.

Date: [1960s]

From: Bateson, Frank Maine (Dr), 1909-2007 :Photographs relating to astronomy in New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-9510-4

Description: Photographs of Mount John Observatory, its buildings and some of its equipment. Views of Mount John, and the surrounding countryside seen from Mount John. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Audrey Walsh, Australia, 2007 Transfers: Transfer information - From Manuscripts : MS-Group-0826 : Bateson, Frank Maine (Dr), 1909-2007 : Papers. See also Cartographic and Drawings & Prints..

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7821

Description: Transparency slides of tramping trip in the Tasman and Hurunui districts, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: ca 1950s-1960s

By: Robin Smith Photography Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0530

Description: Set of photographs of work and leisure in New Zealand, the majority of cattle and sheep mustering and skiing but including a woman water skiing, a woman painting a vase of flowers in oils, a Maori man carving wood, portraits of individual Maori, a procedure in the wine making process, men in the oyster fishing industry, a woman testing eggs, a man looking up at a tree with a chain saw etc. Photographer was Robin Smith. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1924 - 1955 - 1968 - 1933 - 1957 - 1969

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the activities and exhibitions of horticultural societies in New Zealand]

By: Canterbury Horticultural Society (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-HORT-SOC-Canterbury-1920/1969

Description: The following years are held: 1924/25, 1932/33, 1955/56, 1956/57, 20-22 February 1957, 1968/69 Quantity: 6 booklets. Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: Some schedules donated by Eric Moult in 1997.

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-168

Description: Shows a bridge over the estuary in Christchurch. People are fishing off the bridge and others are sailing yachts and waterskiing. Text continues from the title, reading '...Have it built with the spoil from the Tunnel Road, have yachts, speedboats, water skis, etc. using the estuary ALL day. Show how it could perhaps solve Radley flooding and the Avon River level. And what a great 'Round-the-beaches' trip it would make!' It then says, '(I think Bert fancies that, because Auckland can have a 3,348 ft bridge, Christchurch could have a 600 ft one!... Silly old Bert!!)' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1969

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1969

Description: A Country Girl, and original musical play presented by The Drama Club and College Choirs of St Patrick's College, Wellington, and senior pupils of St Catherine's and St Mary's Colleges, Wellington. Producer, Father P J O'Neill. Musical director, Rohan Moloney. Victoria University Memorial Theatre, 30 June-1 and 2 July, 1969. Programme. Earth and Sky. Composer, Jenny McLeod. Director, Peter Tulloch. Conductor, Dobbs Franks. Produced for the Tauranga Schools Music Festival. Tauranga Town Hall, 6-13 1969. Programme (2 copies) Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society Diamond Jubilee [presents] Cole Porter's Can Can. Producer, Julie Blumsky. Musical director, David Carman. Regent Theatre, Masterton, June, 1969. Programme. Secondary Division, Christchurch Teachers' College presents 'Der Jasager", by Kurt Weill [and Bertolt] Brecht. Howard Hall, 2-4 December 1969. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Theatre programmes up to 290 x 225 mm Provenance: One item donated by Mary Jennings, Wellington, in 2014; one by Morva Croxson, Palmerston North, in 2015..

Date: 1960 - 1969

Reference: Eph-C-OPERA-1960s

Description: Includes posters for: J C Williamson Theatres Ltd presents David Oxley and Patricia Moore in "My fair lady", adapted from Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion". [With] John Baskcomb, David Hutcheson ... directed by John McCallum. Theatre Royal [Christchurch. From 8 February 1961] 1967: J C Williamson Theatres Limited and Donmar Productions Ltd proudly present Richard Wordsworth as Fagin in "Oliver!"; with Lola Nixon as Nancy. brief New Zealand tour ... Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch only! Letterhead sheet [1967]. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on poster and letterhead, sizes varing up to 450 x 350 mm. Provenance: Two items donated by Arch Elliot, 1975.

Date: 1935 - 1969

Reference: Eph-A-PUBLISHING-Caxton

Description: Includes: 1936?: What are N.Z. authors writing?, and how can I at low cost obtain their work immediately it is published? This brochure gives you the answer 1940: Three prizewinners. 1 A man and his wife / Frank Sargeson; 2. The deepening stream / M H Holcroft; 3. Selected poems / J R Hervey. [Pamphlet. 1940]. 1946/1947: Landfall; a New Zealand quarterly [Preview of first issue. 1947] 1948: The Caxton Press, 129 Victoria Street Christchurch, 1938 [-] 1948; ten years of steady progress [Christmas card. 1948] 1966: Announcing "The silent land", Les Cleveland [1966] Quantity: 2 b&w art print(s). 2 colour art print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on fliers and pamphlet, sizes varying below 240 mm.

Date: 1962 - 1969

From: [Ephemera up to octavo size, relating to botany, botanical species and specimens, in New Zealand]

By: New Zealand Forest Service

Reference: Eph-A-BOTANY-1960s-01

Description: Pamphlet lists 26 significant trees of the species fir, copper beech, blackwood, gingko, macrocarpa, monket puzzle, kauri, oak, weeping lime, plane, ponderosa pine, sequoia, alder, weeping willows from St Helena, Norway spruce, cabbage tree, incense cedar, most to be found in Christchurch, but some in Cheviot, Homebush Station, Balmoral, Hanmer. The cabbage tree at Burnside High School is mentioned. The tree most recently planted is the oak planted by Lord Cobham in North Hagley Park in 1962 before his return to Britain. The front cover shows a photograph of the monkey puzzle tree in Christchurch Botanical Gardens. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet folded to 208 x 132 mm.

Date: 1968 - 1969

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the New Zealand Army, volunteers, soldiers of regular forces]

Reference: Eph-B-ARMY-1968-02

Description: A letter commanding attendance at the annual Brigade Group Training Camp at Burnham, 1-14 March 1969, gives details of reporting times, leave applications, pay scales. This letter is addressed to Lance-Corporal [Tony] Tikao. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Mimeograph and holograph, on sheet 335 x 205 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is held at PAColl-10204..

Date: [1960s]

From: Bateson, Frank Maine (Dr), 1909-2007 :Photographs relating to astronomy in New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-9510-5

Description: Photographs of Mount John Observatory, its buildings and some of its equipment. Views of Mount John, and the surrounding countryside seen from Mount John. Views from the summit of Mount St Mary's. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Audrey Walsh, Australia, 2007 Transfers: Transfer information - From Manuscripts : MS-Group-0826 : Bateson, Frank Maine (Dr), 1909-2007 : Papers. See also Cartographic and Drawings & Prints..