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Date: Probably March 24 - 25 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8792

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides was probably taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets (information from his diary). This sheet contains images of Wellington, including Wellington Airport; views from Mount Victoria; around the Wellington coast including shore with marram grass and black-backed gulls; the Petone Settlers' Memorial; Marine Parade around Miramar, with the Monowai sailing through Wellington Heads; buildings in the city including Parliament Buildings, Government Buildings, Wakefield House at 90 The Terrace, used by the Founders Club; and an old two-storeyed wooden house on the Terrace; the Corinthic loading various goods at Wellington Wharves; Lambton Quay; Cable Car terminal and views of Wellington; and the Carter Observatory. Slides on this sheet are numbered 505-528, with a gap for no. 506. Arrangement: Image no. 506 (showing the view from Mount Victoria in Wellington) was taken as part of Williams' representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1958-1959

By: Williams, Edmund Gardner, 1894-

Reference: MS-Papers-11287

Description: Diary relating to Williams' voyage to Australia and New Zealand and return to England. Journey begins 3 Sep 1958, ends 20 Jun 1959. The diary used is one for 1959; thus, the Sep to Dec 1958 portion is written in the latter part of the diary, with the year altered to 1958. The 1959 part is entered in the first part of the diary. Includes account of his voyage to and from England, entries and observations on New Zealand. Also includes addresses, some expense accounts, a summary of his movements and an undated newspaper article on the geology, fauna and flora of Mount Pirongia, by Mr M C Gudex. Source of title - Supplied by Library Williams, a botanist and a member of the Society of Visiting Scientists (London), toured New Zealand and (briefly) Australia 1958-1959 Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Transfers: The main part of Mr Williams' collection, his photographic records, are with the Photographic Archive at PA-Group-0076 - From Photographic Archive - PA-Grove-00766.

Date: 28 January 1955

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1955/0212-F

Description: Photograph showing the shipping congestion at the Wellington Wharves. The ships are; Tai Shan (alone on the left at the Dock Wharf). Along Aotea Quay from right: Cumberland. Karitane. Royal Star. Port Hardy. Corinthic. Cedar Hill. Blyth Trader. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 28th of January 1955. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 10.5 x 8 cm