Places

Date: 1927-1929

From: Duncan, June (Mrs), fl 1997 :Photographs from the estates of Joseph and Frank Duncan

By: Duncan, June, active 1997

Reference: PA1-q-613

Description: Cuttings relate closely with albums PA1-q-611 and PA1-q-612. They contain information about Joseph and Frank Duncan's work with the Wellington City Council and later as road paving contractors. There is also a lot of comment on and debate about the new bituminous roads being laid down in the 1920s as well as descriptions of jobs and contracts undertaken by Wellington and some other local authorities in the Wellington Region and elsewhere in New Zealand Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-051

Description: Shows rolling hilly farm country with Mt Manaia in the background. There is part of a small cottage with water barrels on the extreme right, by a winding dirt road, and a horse and possibly cattle graze in the left foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 125 x 187 mm.

Date: 1922 - 1923, 1931 - 1933

From: Smith, R Trevor :Photographs of railway and road construction

Reference: PA1-o-644

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1923-1924

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-248

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: April 1923

From: Loftus, Helen :Photographs of climbing Mt Tapuaenuku and a trip to Kaikoura

By: Gunn, George Alexander, 1895-1968

Reference: PA1-o-1218

Description: Record of a trip made by George Alexander Gunn and friends along the Kaikoura coast to Kaikoura and south to about Oaro. Photographed by George Alexander Gunn in April 1923 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1920 - 1929

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Mi/[192-?]/Acc.25320

Description: Part cadastral, part togographic map of the area from Shelley Bay, Mapuia, Tauhinu and Park roads, Evans Bay and including Weka Street. Includes some numbered sections with C.T. or D.P. numbers. Crown Land and Wellington City Council land is marked, as is land suitable for building. Togographic features are described as quarry, steep sidlings and a saddle. A formed and metalled road to Mount Crawford Prison is marked, as are partly formed roads, possible roadlines with gradient and a roadway to a house. Other Titles - Plan of part sections 3 - 7, Watts Peninsula Registration District, Block VII, Port Nicholson Survey District Pencilled annotations on bottom right of map are of C.T. numbers with various totals not referred to in a key Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and colourwash on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:2 376], 80 x 81 cm.

Date: ca1922-ca1926

From: Barr, John Manson, 1904-1993 :Photographs of Joseph Gordon Coates

By: Coates, Marjorie Grace, 1892-1973

Reference: PA1-o-851

Description: Gordon Coates and his wife on tour. Most of these photographs relate to Coates' as MP and Minister of Public Works. Most of the events record the trials and tribulations of journeying to remote parts of New Zealand to open bridges, post offices, power plants etc. The album also records some of the social and recreational events associated with the tours. According to Gordon Coates' daughter, Mrs Sheila Pryde, this album belonged to Gordon Coates' wife Marjorie, who collected, and may have taken some of the snaps when she accompanied her husband travelling in various parts of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1923-1925

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-249

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1925

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-244

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1927, 1929 - 1931

From: Smith, R Trevor :Photographs of railway and road construction

Reference: PA1-o-643

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s).

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: 1920 - 1929

Reference: MapColl-832.45gmbd/[192-?]/Acc.26620

Description: Map of a section called Bishop's Reserve adjacent to Wagland's property and housel, between the Akura, Upper Opaki and Waipoua River to the west of the Masterton area. A number of native reserves and former native reserves are marked. Also includes an enlarged inset map of the proposed road with details of the right of way. Houses, a creamery, railway line and station. Names include Kummer, Wagland, Levin. Main map: scale [1:7 920] Inset map: scale [ca.1:792] Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on card, coloured, scales vary, 55.8 x 60.2 cm.

Date: 1941-1958

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Smith, Robin Vaughan Francis, 1927-

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-177

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1941-1958 Main street of Arrowtown, church and cottage; homestead on road between Kingston & Queenstown with Remarkables behind; road construction on the Kingston-Lake Wakatipu Road; road into Arrowtown; Crown Range road (showing Jaguar XK150 Fixed Head Coupe); rural scene in Maungawera Valley between Lake Wanaka & Hawera, 1941; Kingston Railway Station and train; opendeck bus in Routeburn Valley; Cecil Peak from shores of Lake Wakatipu. Scottish bard at one end of Signal Hill memorial, Dunedin Lake Hayes; Mount Aspiring from North-East; Clutha River; Skippers Bridge; Thames Street, Oamaru looking south; aerial view of Dunedin looking south from railway station; sunken iris garden at Dunedin Botanical Gardens, 1958; mist over over Dunedin as seen from Southern Motorway. Photographers include: W H Raine, W G Weigel, J D S Roberts & R V Francis Smith Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1924

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department; Hunt, Lester G R, active 1913-1924

Reference: MapColl-832.11995gbbd/1924/Acc.47194

Description: Survey plan with bearings and measurements of land between Manse and Cross streets in Whangarei near the main railway line. Also shows numbered land sections in vicinity with details on the fencing between properties. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:792], 44.5 x 39 cm.

Date: [1925-1929]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-086

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; includes history of the post office at Ohau up to 1925; notes on railway management; circulars re the Labour Party for Reform Party candidates circulated by the New Zealand Welfare League; letters from the Minister of Railways re proposals to extend services in the North Island and on change to train timetable; employment request; notes by Field on political meeting of Waite at Lawrence from `Otago daily times'; mental hospital staff rates of pay; speech, A D McLeod on land settlement; heavily annotated clippings on the state of the nation from the Prime Minister's address; various notes etc relating to the election; notes on various political meetings including those of Dyson and Sievewright and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1920s?]

Reference: PAColl-8378

Description: Photograph overlooking the Wairoa/Napier Road and surrounding country, near Mohaka in the Hawke's Bay, showing Hawke Bay in the distance. Taken circa 1920s? by an unidentified photographer. Other - Negative number on bottom right of print: 3027 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20 x 15 cm, mounted on file print card

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

Reference: PAColl-7079

Description: Photographs of Canterbury, comprising photograph captioned "Early Canterbury - a pick and shovel road around a cliff"; "Traction Engine transport on an early day Canterbury road" in which a traction engine is pulling three laden wagons with men on horseback in the foreground; and Unwin's blacksmiths in Killinchy with a horse and cart, a man holding another horse, various carriages and two men with bicycles outside it. Photographs taken ca 1900-1920 by unidentified photographers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic prints

Date: 1923

By: Paterson, Andrew James, 1863-1932

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Se/1923/Acc.24271

Description: Plan showing the survey of Breaker Bay Road from Seatoun to Lyall Bay, between the boundary of the Branda Quarry and the military reserve, and labelled 'A'. Note says the land was referred to in the annexed Deed of Convenor between the Wellington City Corporation and C J Crawford, 1923. The road's east frontage covers Sections 17, 14, 15 and 18, Block XI, Port Nicholson Survey District. Extended Title - Breaker Bay Rd [ms map]. East frontage Sections 17, 14, 15 & 18, Block XI, Port Nicholson Survey District Written on map: 13/130. DP 4952. C J Crawford, balance C/T Vol 183 fol 217 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil and watercolour on diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 55.8 x 131.5 cm

Date: 1918-1924

By: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925

Reference: qMS-1644

Description: Mainly typescript, with many ms corrections and additions, of letters and articles on a wide variety of topics submitted to newspapers Source of title - Transcribed Phillips founded the Auckland and Fiji Banking Company 1874 and was prominent in local affairs in the Wairarapa Quantity: 1 volume(s) (81 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript (34 cm; blue linen)