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New Zealand - Miscellaneous
Date: 1939-1940
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Black :[East Cape and Hawke Bay areas showing roads, railways and county boundaries] [m...
Date: 1917
Reference: MapColl-832.1gm/[1917?]/Acc.5844
Description: Hand-traced map with annotations of roads, railways, some of which are proposed, and boundaries covering the area from Cape Kidnappers, including the East Cape, across to Rotorua to Lake Taupo and the Kaimanawa Range. Included in the unfinished reference key are Moa remains etc., Footprints, Remains in caves, Bones, etc. in open, all of which do not appear to be marked on this map. Red ink annotations, written by 'Black', include several points where the height is recorded in feet and notes such as Maori, Volcanic rocks, Massacre Te Kooti, 1869. It is not known if Black's work relates to the black ink annotations which detail the landing of H.M.S. Eclipse at Rangitukia on July 5, 1865 with 120 Militia and 75 Highlanders. The date of the skirmish is given as 18 July and 2 Aug. Kairomiromi. Also recorded is Pukemaire, Oct. 1st, H.M.S. Brick. Inscriptions: Mount recto - centre left - Presented by D & G Hill.; Mount recto - bottom right - Initials [indecipherable] 4.XII.17 Black Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, coloured, scale [ca.1:633,600], 40.6 x 43.2 cm.
Napier and Gisborne
Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]
From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey
Reference: PA12-7815
Description: Transparency slides of Napier and Gisborne, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.
Waioeka Gorge gas pipeline project
Date: 1984
From: New Zealand. Ministry of Education :Photographs from the Ministry of Works Library
Reference: PA1-o-1301
Description: Photographic record of digging the trench in which to lay the natural gas pipeline through the Waioeka Gorge. Photographed by an unknown photographer from September to December 1984. The pipeline through the Waioeka Gorge carried natural gas between Kawerau and Gisborne. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Eric Tyndale-Biscoe outward correspondence to his parents
Date: 29 Dec 1926-13 Feb 1927
From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11956-03
Description: Outward correspondence from Eric Tyndale-Biscoe to his parents Cecil Earl and Blanche Violet chiefly on the topic of a motoring and camping trip he made around the North Island of New Zealand. Letters include description of train travel, camping, trout fishing, driving and road conditions (including other traffic, punctures, getting bogged down, and pot holes), huts "swaggers whare", Waitomo Caves and glow worms, Maori history, manuka, tui birds, and swimming in lakes and rivers. Places he visits include Mokoia, Awakino, Te Kuiti, Waitomo, Hamilton, Tauranga, Whakatane, Opotiki, Gisborne, Lake Waikaremoana, Wairoa, Lake Tutira, and Napier. Also talks about staying in with the Reeves family [Hastings? Havelock North?], teaching, and preparation for his departure from New Zealand. Names mentioned are the Mellish family in Tauranga and the [Gordon?] family (farmers in rural Waikato). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Pen drawn maps show the route taken on the first leg of the journey from Mokoia to Awakino and the second leg from Awakino to Tauranga. Also includes pen illustrations of Mount Taranaki and bush, a tent, and a fishing fly.
Photographs mainly relating to the 1931 Hawkes Bay earthquake
Date: 1931, [ca 1920s-1930s]
From: Morriss, Bernadette, fl 2014: Items relating to members of her family
By: Jauncey, Philip Henry, 1902-1982
Reference: PAColl-10218-5
Description: Four album pages with 17 photographs by an unknown photographer showing mainly images of damaged buildings in Napier following the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Also includes images of automobiles and mud in Gisborne, including of a royal mail car stuck in the mud on the Gisborne - Tolaga Bay road, which is also available digitally at PAColl-5293-14. One large image shows a crowd in the stands at an unknown event, circa late 1930s, taken by Wellington photographer P H Jaoncey. Quantity: 4 album pages with 17 b&w original prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Hill, Ivon Johnstone, 1897-1962 :Album of photographs of Gisborne district
Date: 1924-1928
By: Hill, Ivon Johnstone, 1897-1962; Hill, Bernard, active 2002; Tuckwell, Judith, active 2002
Reference: PA1-o-1174
Description: Photographs of the east coast road just north of Gisborne, and of journeys inland from Gisborne to Otoko, and Motu. Scenic views make up most of the subject matter in this album; willows overhanging a stream at "Otonga" in the Waimata Valley; Twin waterfalls in the bush near Otoko; the road over Tatapouri Hill just north of Gisborne; a station homestead in its plantations and valley, Otoko; the Motu-Opotiki road passing through stands of native forrest; a nikau palm grove at the Morere hot springs; bridges, streams and rivers; the town of Motu under snow in 1926; Waikanae Beach, its tearooms and the dredge Korua. There is one photograph of children sitting with their dolls, and another of a child, a man and a dog. Photographed by Ivon Johnstone Hill from 1924 to 1928 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Maori
Date: 1927-1949
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Moore & Thompson (Firm); Bierre, Eric W, 1899-
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-145
Description: Photographs taken for publication in NZ Free Lance between 1927 and 1959, many undated. Includes a variety of subjects and places (see below). Also photographs of Ana Hato at Orakei Korako; roadmakers and road construction at Hopuruahine in Wairoa District; ancient eel weir (patuna), taken by J Faris in 1886; carvings on King Koroki's palace, Turangawaewae Marae, Mar 1938; Maori Meeting House at Te Kaha, East Coast and carved memorial cross, 1959; Meeting House at Whangara, 1959; school children waiting for the bus outside the Ruatoria Primary School, 1959; group of children at Whakarewarewa, 1944, etc Photographers include: W Hall Raine; A W Powell, Eric W Bierre, Moore & Thompson, and others. Also typed list of captions (not all photographs included) Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Road making, Tokomaru Bay freezing works at Waima
Date: [ca 1910-1930]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000277-G
Description: Road making using horses under construction at northern end of Waima, near the Tokomaru Bay freezing works. Photograph possibly taken by Oates Bros of Tokomaru Bay in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Making road. Freezing works. Tokomaru Bay. No O.B. 120 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches