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Hawke's Bay Region

Date: 1931 - 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Whites Aviation Ltd; Orr, R W, active 1950; Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947; Wilson, James Lloyd, 1915-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-033

Description: Photographs of the Hawke's Bay Region, 1931 to 1950, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of the Hawke's Bay flood of 1938, Lake Waikaremoana, Napier city and Cape Kidnappers. Photographers include R W Orr, Lloyd Wilson and White's Aviation. Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Colour slides 146-169

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7765

Description: Phase 7 continued - 146. Scense in Geyser Valley near Wairaki [sic]; 147. Boat harbour on Waikato River at outlet from Taupo; 148. Marine Parade, Napier, Music stall; 149. Marine Parade, Napier, floral clock. Phase 8; Auckland - 150. Teal flying boat base, Mechanics Bay; 151. Parnell Baths, Okahu Bay; 152. Okahu Bay; 153-154. Savage Memorial; 155. Mission Bay, St Heliers Bay; 156-157. New Bridge under construction across Mechanics Bay; 158. Trout at Rainbow Springs, Rotorua; 159. Ohinemutu Church, Rotorua; 160. Maori meeting place, Ohinemutu; 161. Rotorua Baths; 162. Waitomo Hostel; 163. Waitomo Hostel with environs; 164. Path leading dwon to Arenui caves entrance; 165. Kiosk near Arenui caves entrance; 166. En route to Marokopa; 167. Marokopa Falls, 20 miles from Waitomo; 168. Waitomo Hostel from road to Marakopa; 169. Flood damage at Otorohanga Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

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Flood-damaged bridge on Pelorus River

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039438-G

Description: Pelorus river, showing bridge damaged in flood. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top centre - Pelorus River, showing where the bridge washed off cylinders. The flood ... rose 45ft at this point. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

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Flood debris alongside the bridge over the Mohaka River

Date: April 1938

From: Broomfield, C (Mrs), fl 1976 :Photographs, chiefly of the 1938 Wairoa flood

Reference: PAColl-0102-01

Description: Flood debris (logs etc), alongside the bridge over the Mohaka River, April, 1938. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Verso - The earthquake [1931?] dammed a creek & formed Te Hoe Lake 5 miles long & 260 ft deep - it rose 10 ft a day when being formed. In the flood it burst through & disappeared down the Mohaka River & this bridge is the one on the main road from Napier to Wairoa where the Mohaka River is crossed not far below the big new Mohaka viaduct. When lots of logs got through one side of the bridge they & the water came along the bridge towards Wairoa side. The river rose quickly 40 ft. Do you wonder this wooden bridge gave way? Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Collapsed bridge over the Mohaka River

Date: 1938

From: Broomfield, C (Mrs), fl 1976 :Photographs, chiefly of the 1938 Wairoa flood

Reference: PAColl-0102-06

Description: Photograph of a bridge over the Mohaka River, half of which collapsed during the 1938 flood, taken ca April 1938 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6.5 x 9.4 cm

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Salmon album 11

Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-207

Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

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