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Date: [ca 1975]

By: Hinkley, Tony, 1940-2001

Reference: PAColl-8002

Description: Photographs of staff and tunnellers of the Rangipo North section of Tongariro Power Project, taken ca 1975 by an unidentified photographer. All individuals are identified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Arranged into order as per listing provided with photographs Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints 16.2 x 21.6 cm Finding Aids: List of photographs that identifies individuals filed with photographs. Provenance: From the estate of Tony Hinkley, 2004 Transfers: To Book Collections - Programme for the official opening of the Rangipo underground power station, 18 November 1983.

Date: 1947-1955

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 94-106-70/09

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1924-1937

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

Reference: PA1-q-769

Description: Opens with views of the site of the Arapuni Hydro scheme and the Paturuahine Gorge which was flooded to form Lake Arapuni. This is followed by images of the repairs to the one of the water channels that took place in 1932. The rest are photographs of the dam at various stages of construction, the dam completed, views of the new lake, water flowing over the spillway, and the Arapuni falls created below the dam Two views of Atiamuri show the Pohaturoa Rock in the background Ten images of Stewart's Claim, a location south of Okarito, show scenic views some with gold dredging equipment lying around, a beach and a river estuary on which is a barge loaded with pipes. Eight images record before and after effects of controlled blasting on a limestone bluff at Cobden Quarry, Greymouth, photographed on the 15th of January, 1932 The last section are views of the construction of the Waitaki Hydro, and the new Lake Waitaki. There are also several images of the Mokau Falls at Waikaremoana Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-083

Description: Shows the Clutha River flowing through a canyon. On one side stand Clyde Dam workers hammering a sign into the ground which demands a 15 per cent pay rise. On the other side are Muldoon and Bill Birch wearing a hard hat. Muldoon is angrily refusing to meet the workers' demands. At the bottom of the canyon two scientists from the D.S.I.R. Geological Survey are sitting on the ground with instruments measuring the shaking of the ground. Extended Title - 15 per cent higher pay for Clyde Dam workers Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, white gouache, crayon and letratone, 450 x 320 mm.

Date: September 1951, 1956

By: New Zealand. National Publicity Studios; Meyer, Robert John, 1921-1990

Reference: PAColl-0946

Description: Includes photographs showing the construction of the Tekapo hydroelecctric power scheme Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) (postcard) in one envelope.

Date: 1942

By: Clarke, C G T, active 1942

Reference: PAColl-D-0784

Description: Elevated view of the power station, lake and village. Taken by C G T Clarke in 1942 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print with touches of handcolouring on roofs, 280 x 500 mm on card 455 x 630 mm

Date: ca 1920s-1950s

By: Nevilles Portraits Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0588

Description: Photographs of the construction of the Mangaore Power Station and the pipes leading from the Mangahao dams, and later construction work in the 1950s. Includes a interior view of the power station and a man standing next to one of the pipes to show the scale. Photographer for the later photographs was Neville's Portraits. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-037

Description: Shows a truck loaded with barrels of moth balls driving towards the construction site of the Clyde Dam. Two workers are halting the truck. Refers to Social Credit's decision to support future empowering legislation to complete construction of the dam, after months of on-again off-again decisions by the government. Extended Title - Clyde High Dam Site Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 450 x 320 mm.

Date: 1970

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-067

Description: Shows a man labelled State Hydro, attempting to fill up the depleted Lake Manapouri with his garden hose. Comalco is erecting a factory nearby. Demonstrators with "Save Manapouri" and "Save our scenic beauty" placards stand on the hose to stop the flow. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 228 x 323 mm on sheet 290 x 395 mm.

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: [between 1927-1932]

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

Reference: EP-2263-1/2-G

Description: Arapuni, Waikato, probably relating to the hydro scheme. Photograph taken between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1930s

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-07

Description: Photographs of construction and opening of Kaimata hydroelectric station (opened 1932), and Dobson power station. also unidentified portrait of man and young girl. Photographs taken 1930s by L A Inkster of Greymouth. The Kaimata power plant was subsequently known as the Arnold power station, although the dam was still called the Kaimata dam. Quantity: 24 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: 1929-1931

By: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949

Reference: PAColl-5378

Description: Hydro electric power and irrigation dams, in particular the construction of the Pool Burn Reservoir dam. Some dam sites before construction, specifically a site on the Manuherikia River for the "Manuherikia Falls Dam". There are photographs of "White Creek Fault" and the effects of the Murchison earthquake on roads, bridges and the countryside. Especially covered is the lake formed by an earth slide across the Matakitaki River Likely to be a very interesting collection. Furkert was a leading public servant through the 1920s and 1930s. His life has been researched by Mr R Aspden for the DNZB, who has other papers relating to Furkert Arrangement: Negatives housed at F 179548 1/2 to F 179643 1/2 Quantity: 81 b&w original negative(s). 160 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Donor is daughter of Furkert

Date: 1949 - 1953

By: Newman, Frederick Hugh, 1900-1964

Reference: Plans-2004-053-001/003

Description: Includes perspective drawings of the Whakamaru Power project, Islington substation, and for a memorial stone and fountain in Manners Street for the Methodist Church, 1939. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, sizes varying up to 520 x 765 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms Maria Newman, of Lower Hutt, in 2004. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1291.

Date: 1971

From: Porritt, Arthur Espie (Sir), 1900-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8149

Description: Views of Waitaki District. These include - Aerial view of Lake Waitaki. Waitaki Dam. Aerial view of Lake Aviemore and dam. Water skiing on Loch Laird. Aerial view of Lake Benmore. Diversion tunnel on Waitaki River at commencement of Benmore Dam. Benmore Power Station. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 12 colour original transparency/ies. Provenance: From presentation album entitled - "Presented to their Excellencies, the Governor General Sir Arthur and Lady Porritt by the Chairman and Councillors of the Waitaki County Council on the occasion of their visit, 22nd October 1971."

Date: 1971

From: [Ephemera of around A2 and A1 size relating to electricity in New Zealand, its generation, supply and equipment. 1900-1979]

By: New Zealand. Electricity Department; Shearer, Archibald Reid, 1914-1997

Reference: Eph-D-ELECTRICITY-1971-01

Description: Shows a diagram of the layout of the switchyard, control building, tunnels, tubes and shafts, with adetailed perspective drawing of the room containing the generator, turbine and transformer. At lower right is a map of the area between Invercargill and Manapouri. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 470 x 330 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Margaret Bailey, Stratford, in 2009. Transfers: Collection as a whole received in Ephemera. Material transferred from there to Photographic Archive (PA-Group-00546, 6 boxes and one package of slides), Published Collections (DSIR Chemistry Division reports, four reports by Bailey Partnership Ltd), Cartographic Collection (assorted maps).

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-021

Description: Shows Muldoon standing holding binoculars and dressed in army uniform. He is directing his artillery troops to fire rounds at Western Samoa, Clyde and Marsden Point. The gun is called 'legislation'. Refers to the fall of the Western Samoan government, the long running industrial dispute at the Marsden Point oil refinery, and the controversial Clutha Development (Clyde Dam) Empowering Bill introduced by the government to continue construction of the Clyde Dam. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: [1940-1977]

From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7403-30

Description: Correspondence, notes, printed matter etc relating to various projects of Mead's; includes piece on salt spring found in the King Country; material on the proposed Auckland harbour bridge; butterfat comparison chart for Piako county (1966-1967), canoe block dimensions, water main flow charts, diagram by G M Smith of house for Maori; and submission by Mead on Auckland's water supply Other Titles - New Zealand Dairy Board. A Survey of the economic structure of factory supply dairy farms in New Zealand in 1966-67, v4 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1974 - 1976

By: Bell, Graham B, active 1974-1977; Taupō District (N.Z.). District Council

Reference: MapColl-832.1898gena/1976/Acc.14853

Description: Engineering map depicting the revised scheme of the proposed hydro-electric project, Hinemaiaia C, preliminary investigation, for the Taupo Borough Council. Shows the earlier 1974 arrangement of headworks, route of pipeline, and situation of power station. Includes three amendments: 1- further revision of route of pipeline with shorter tunnels, 2- first alternative route added in broken lines for comparison, dated 29/10/76 and 3- second alternative dated 4/12/76 - power station on right bank of river. Plan is shown both aerially and longitudinally. Original map August 1974. Amendments: Dated 1/7/76 (first amendment July 1976), 29/10/76 (second amendment August 1974) and 4/12/76 (second alternative). Original map drawn Aug, 1974 by GB Bell. Other Titles - hydro-electric Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1: 200 - 1: 1 200], 60 x 84 cm.