Places

Date: 1888

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook. 1886-1888].

Reference: E-598-045

Description: Shows a general view of the plain on which the township is built. The foreground shows the road leading down to the town. Extended Title - from his Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook, 1886-1888, page 45. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page 145 x 223 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: [ca 1876-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1036

Description: Most of the folder relates to R D D Maclean and includes correspondence relating to business, farming, local affairs, membership, a sample of washed wool, a long series of letters to Maclean in Scotland from Alex Campbell, The Cottage, describing conditions, including pests and weather (1878), the purchase of a Clydesdale horse, Apollo, and other matters (identified persons entered under Name) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: 1894 - 1895

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :Tasmania and New Zealand sketch book, 1883-1896

Reference: E-175-f-052

Description: Looking down from a high point close to Lyttelton towards Governor's Bay and The Head of the Bay, with the Port Hills all round. A road, possibly the Sumner Road, is visible on a headland far below Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 213 mm

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: 1935-1955

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-344

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1973

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-8-1/1/8A-Acc.

Description: District planning map, showing zoning areas, recreation reserves and open spaces, boundaries etc. Coloured reference key chart given. Note signed by L G Williams deputy chairman Hutt County Council and stamped Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale indeterminable, 40.5 x 30 cm. on sheet 80 x 64 cm.

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: 1945 - 1950

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Five early cartoons. ca 1945-1950].

Reference: B-154-129

Description: Left half of a cartoon in two sheets; other half at B-156-130. At the left, two road workers frown as they look at the furrows gouged by trolley buses. At the right, workers at Rongotai Aerodrome discuss subdivision plans, in front of a hangar, with a rocket launch-pad in the background. Other Titles - \"One thing about trams, they used to break-up the roads just down the middle - these trolley buses do it all over\" Other Titles - \"I see that now that rockets don't need any runways they're going to sub-divide part of the 'drome into housing lots\" Date estimated as post Second World War. Estimated as pre-1950 because Lodge has not yet established his habit of incorporating the date into his signature. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 320 x 445 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Frank Mitchell in 2002. Previously owned by his brother V Leonard W Mitchell.

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: PAColl-4636

Description: Photographs of: a new bridge over the railway line at Turakina in the middle distance with the river bridge and the railway bridge also visible; the bridge over the river at Turakina; men shovelling stone from a river bank on to carts running on rails over the river to the highway; jig line of Oreore metalling plant - a man standing at the bottom of inclined rails; a winch and steam traction engine in use on the construction of Turakina bridge; men standing on the new bridge over the railway line at Turakina; and a man standing on the new Turakina river bridge with part of the old one next to it. Photographer unidentified. All have the same photographic developer's stamp on the reverse but they may relate to PAColl-7364. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints at PAColl-5932-34 to PAColl-5932-37.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-043

Description: A red clay road on a steep hillside through dense bush, including tree ferns. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1923-1924

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-248

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1900

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18

Reference: PAColl-7581-02

Description: Photograph of Paddy's Bend on the road through Otira Gorge ca 1900. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1993

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-4235-001/008

Description: Includes a topographical overview of the area with roads and subdivided land, including plans for vegetation and roading. The species of native plant vegetation are listed. Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner collaborated in the plans. Quantity: 8 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on draughting paper, sizes varying Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-009

Description: A road surrounded by bush, heading towards mountains. Cabbage trees amongst the bush Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: MapColl-832.1493fbo/[197-?]/Acc.29600

Description: Drawn on a copy of a cadastral map, the annotations depict proposed boundary changes to Hamilton City, areas two and three. Shows existing city boundaries and the proposed additions from Waipa County, an addition of 135 hectares in area two and 212 hectares in area three. Top middle of map: 'B'. Other Titles - two Other Titles - three Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 42 x 55 cm.

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-10/2/5-Acc.

Description: Shows main roads and roads over which trams and buses operate. Also identifies military camp, schools, quarries, fertiliser works and Noxious Industry. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Ink and coloured drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 78 x 66 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

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: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-043

Description: Shows a village at Tokaanu, Taupo, where some of the storehouses are cut into the cliffs with rectangular openings. There are also huts and storehouses on top of the cliff. Labelled features are: the Kaimanawa Range (far left), Pihanga moutain (centre distance) and Herekiekie's grave in the far right background. A road cuts through a gorge at the far left, and there are talls grasses in the left foreground. Other Titles - Rotoaira Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [43 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1994

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-8002-001/002

Description: The two sheets together form a map of the proposed highway bypass running along the northwest side of the two Te Marua lakes. The Te Marua Motor track is marked. There are numerous annotations indicating culverts, features, relocations, plantings. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil on photocopies, 595 x 850 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: n d

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-266

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; includes several unidentified letter writers and notes. Table of comparative altitudes of the Otira road giving barometer and spirit level altitudes. Quantity: 1 folder(s).