Places

Date: Sep 1997 to May 1998

By: McConnochie, Helen, 1925-

Reference: OHColl-0445

Description: Talks to eleven survivors of the 1931 Napier earthquake who were mainly teenagers at the time of the earthquake. Interviewees are Gordon Amner, Keith Dick, John Hohepa, Althaea Sheppard, Russell Spiller, Agnes Terrill, Dorothy Beddows, Christina Ennor, Leonora Martin, Kenneth Spiller and Douglas Storkey. Other - Agreement form says tapes held at Hawkes Bay Museum Archive (Alexander Turnbull Library not mentioned) Interviewer(s) - Helen McConnochie Quantity: 13 C60 cassette(s). 11 printed abstract(s). 11 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete Summary provided.

Date: [after 10 Jun 1886]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-41-25

Description: Photograph of the desolated area on the shores of Lake Tarawera where the village of Moura had been before the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Photograph taken by Alfred Burton shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Identical image at PA7-39-30. Same image held by Te Papa [C.010747]. View online. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title on negative - The site of the destoyed village of Moura, Tarawera, NZ. 890; Recto - bottom right - On negative - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 20.2 cm

Date: 10 August 1979

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1979/2805-F

Description: Residents of Christie Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, carrying pets and belongings salvaged from their homes. They are (from left) Kay Anderson, John Prestney, Ray Wilson, and Judith Wilson. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 10th of August 1979 On the 8th of August 1979 a landslide destroyed part of the suburb of Abbotsford, Dunedin. Over 50 houses were wrecked and many more damaged Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1979

From: Insurance Council of New Zealand : Records

Reference: MSY-3488

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 11 April 1968

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1968/1569-F

Description: Survivors of the Wahine shipwreck receiving assistance on Seatoun beach, photographed 10 April 1968 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 11 April 1968

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1968/1573-F

Description: Lifeboat from ship Wahine landing passengers and crew on Seatoun Beach, after the ship sank on 10 April 1968, photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 6 x 6 cm

Date: 1929-1931

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes

Reference: PA1-q-768

Description: Damage to buildings, roads, rivers and landscapes resulting from the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-069

Description: Shows a fashionably dressed woman and child in the right foreground beside a new car, with the new nurses' home, of Spanish Mission style, in the background. The original painting won the New Zealand Technical College art prize, where contestants were required to depict a modern building,modern car, and modern fashion. Seven nurses lost their lives when this building was destroyed in 1931. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 120 x 177 mm. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 2010

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to miners and mining in New Zealand]

By: New Zealand. Parliament

Reference: Eph-B-MINING-2010-01

Description: Booklet for the memorial service to the 29 miners who died as a result of explosions in the Pike River Mine, on or after 19 November 2010. Shows a page of photographic portraits of the miners, of the Pike Stream and of the area near the mine. The order of service included songs by the Greymouth District Combined Primary School Choir, and Nga Kura o Te Tai Poutini, with speakers Reverend Canon Mere Wallace, Reverend Tim Mora, Mine chief executive Peter Whittall, Greymouth Mayor Tony Kokshoorn, Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand, Prime Minister John Key, singing led by Carolyn Williams, prayers led by Father John Morrison. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 300 x 212 mm. Provenance: Donated by Margaret Hurst, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 19 Apr 1968

By: Hanna, Joy, active 1968-1987

Reference: MS-Papers-11028

Description: Letter written 19 Apr 1968 by Ada Woolf to her family in which she details her experiences as a passenger on board the inter-island ferry `Wahine' on 10 Apr when in capsized and sank at the entrance to Wellington Harbour Accompanying material - Letter from Mrs Hanna providing biographical details and provenance note Quantity: 1 folder(s) (23 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (photocopy)

Date: 1925-1986

From: Syme family (N.Z.): Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4405

Description: The papers comprise of a number of essays and papers written by Syme. These include; `The Design of Gold Dredges', `Effluent Treatment' (part of a symposium on engineering in the meat industry), `The operation of small refrigerated stores and chillers' (a talk to the NZ Bacon Curers' technical conference), `100 years of the meat processing industry in NZ', `Ships, Waterfronts and Harbours', `National and local disasters' (including information and views on the Murchison and Napier earthquakes, Tangiwai, the King's Wharf ammonia escape and the Raetihi, Ballantyne's and Horitiu Engine room fires), ` Ships and Shipwrecks' and a poem on meat research prior to 1986. Also included in this collection is a paper by F J Jones on `Specification for the calculation and record of strengths of New Zealand railway bridges' and `Dredging as a profitable means of working alluvial auriferous drifts' by W H Cutten. Also included is a copy of Syme's New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers certificate, some biographical details about Symes and part of a 1976 AFFCo staff newsletter which gives details of Symes' career with the company. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, typescript and printed matter

Date: 11 April 1968

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1968/1571-F

Description: Aerial view of the Wahine shipwreck, with Seatoun in the background, photographed 11 April 1968 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) negative strips with 8 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 11 Apr 1968

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1968/1572-F

Description: Aerial view of the inter-island ferry, Wahine, lying on her side in Wellington Harbour. Photographs taken 11 April 1968 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1993

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Civil Defence; Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHColl-0092

Description: Interviews with two passengers and two crew members about their experiences during the sinking of the 'Wahine' in Wellington Harbour on 10 April 1968. Interviewees are Shirley Hick, Kenneth Macleod, Margaret Alexander and Terry Victory. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 4 printed abstract(s). 4 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 10 Apr 1968

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

Reference: 35mm-01155-F

Description: Survivors from the Wahine shipwreck, Seatoun, Wellington. Salvation Army members assist. Photographs taken on 10 April 1968, by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) (Individual images on negative strip). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1951

By: New Zealand Labour Party

Reference: PAColl-1179

Description: Quantity: 428 b&w original photographic print(s). 180 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (approximately). 130 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on car. 12 item(s) of photographic ephemera. 9 container(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s) framed. 4 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) handcoloured and mounted in ten boxes.

Date: 1996

By: Mapp, Lesley, active 1967-1995

Reference: MS-Papers-5549

Description: Comprises three letters (1) from Margaret, Miramar, describing the effects of the storm that wrecked the `Wahine' on her family and house; (2) from Bicky Wang, Seatoun, also describing the effects of the storm on members of her family and their house but also giving a description of a family outing to George Joseph, Oriental Bay; and (3) a letter from Mrs Mapp's daughter, Lesley Gardiner, describing her decision to donate the letters to the Library Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Provenance: The two letters describing the effects of the storm that wrecked the `Wahine' in 1968 were found among the papers of the donor's mother

Date: [after 10 Jun 1886]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-41-21

Description: View of the remains of the Haszard family home. They lost their lives in the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - (Ruins) Mr Hazard's house, Wairoa, N.Z. 884; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15 x 20 cm

Date: 1982

From: Lynch, James, 1947-:Collection of original cartoons by James Lynch.

By: New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-186-026

Description: Shows Bob Owens, Chairman of Air New Zealand, rowing a rubber dinghy in a marsh during duck-shooting season. A duck-shooter aims at a duck that represents 'Air New Zealand' regarding it as a 'sitting target' while Owens complains that the duck is a 'protected species'. Context: The Colker Commission was an investigation which produced a damning indictment of Air New Zealand following the Erebus disaster. Bob Owens was the Chairman of Air New Zealand. The shooting season traditionally started on the first Saturday in May. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 295 x 420 mm

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-070

Description: Shows a large pile of debris, wood, stone and red tiles, being the remains of "the once beautiful Nurses' Home where seven nurses died and many were injured". It was "once considered one of Napier's most beautiful buildings". Title information on verso. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on postcard 120 x 177 mm. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..