Places

Date: 1910-1915

By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985

Reference: PAColl-0370

Description: Set of photographs of drainage operations on the Hauraki Plains. Spoil from the canal and ditch construction was used as foundation for roads so road construction is also shown. The photographs include two men hay harvesting in front of a small house, a man in a flax field, a dredge at work, the labourers' camp, boats moored at a jetty in Ngatea. Some of the photographs are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy photographic prints Provenance: Given to J H Christie by Dennis Hancock, the grandson of H J Hancock who created the collection.

Date: 1869

By: Field, Henry Claylands, 1825-1912

Reference: MapColl-832.41bj/1869/Acc.1185

Description: Copy of a topographic map of the area in the Murimotu District from the Kaiiwi River and the Ohura River across to Lake Taupo, the Kaimanawa Ranges and the Rangitikei River. Cut road lines, proposed lines and native tracks are referred to in a reference key. Some tracks are routes proposed by Mr. Hogg and Mr. Booth, also an old war track described by natives is marked. Plantations, mountain peaks, rivers and streams are named. Relief features are described. Major Marshall's and Birch's Station are marked. Handwritten note on bottom right of map: The lake and mountains are from Hochstetter's map corrected by the Auckland Trig Survey: the Wanganui River from Brewer's survey, and the Upper Turakina and Rangitikei from Swainson's map corrected by Monro's survey. Map published in: Copy of the report by the late Mr. H.C. Field on the discovery of Field's track, Wanganui, 1869. Shelf reference qMS-0726, Field Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale [1:506 880], 60.5 x 38.7 cm.

Date: 1 July 1910

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Gilmour Brothers (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-000233-G

Description: View of Gatrans Hill, with a winding road leading up to a group of small houses, 1 July 1910. Photograph taken by the Gilmour Brothers of Raglan. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Gatrans Hill, TeMata, N.Z. 138; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - G Bros. Protd 1.7.10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: Early 1950s

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: PAColl-6552

Description: 13 images (and 5 duplicate file prints) of Chateau Tongariro and the nearby roads. Includes the junction of state highways 47 and 48 with a chrysler parked at the side of the road, and one of the Tongariro National Park sign. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015096 to 015108 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

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: 1876-1877

By: Mangapiko District Road Board

Reference: Micro-MS-0709

Description: Relates to the building of roads and bridges in the Mangapiko District, Auckland Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 55 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

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.

Date: [ca 1869-ca 1900], [ca 1950s]

From: Wainuiomata Historical Society: Photographs

By: Richardson, Wal, active 1950

Reference: PAColl-7664

Description: Collection comprises: Photograph of road works in Ghuznee Street, Wellington, ca 1950s, by Pacific Photos, Courtney Place, Wellington. 3 photographs of Seaview, taken from the top of the Wainuiomata Hill in 1950 by Wal Richardson. Album leaf with 5 photographs of Wellington, ca 1860s-1900s, including preparations for visit of Duke of Edinburgh to Wellington, wedding of Ted and Amy Yates, portrait of a woman, Te Aroha Bathhouse and fire damage in Lambton Quay. Duke of Edinburgh visited New Zealand in 1869. Cadman Bathhouse opened in 1898. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 album leaf with 5 b&w original photographic prints. Provenance: Donated by Wainuiomata Historical Society, October 2002, through Mrs Vicky Alexander. The photographs were given to the society by the late Mrs Claire Burdan, whose husband was descended from Richard & Mary Prouse, and from the Dixon family, of the Dixon aerated water business. The photographs appear to have come from these families.

Date: 1949

Reference: MapColl-832.15gbbd/1949/Acc.35756

Description: Map shows Wynyardton North, the Pukepoto block, Pt allot 33 Kapanga parish, Pt OLC 32 (Pt. Keven's grant), numbered sections within each street block, D.P. and C.T. numbers, deed's plan H25, and the main road through the area which has text 'Public Road Certificate by Chief Surveyor No. 1596'. 'Approved for the purposes of Sec. 24 'Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act, 1949' is not signed by Chief Surveyor. Note reads 'Lands coloured green hereon are Pts OLC 32 comprised in CT 894/181 and CT 569/49 and subject to a right of Way created by Con. 24 (D1.26). Note coloured shading not visible on this copy. 'File. 14/110' Other Titles - section Other Titles - survey district Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1: 1 584], 81 x 79 cm.

Date: 1968

By: Taylor, Walter Douglas, active 1968

Reference: MS-Papers-0303

Description: An article about experiences as a Depression relief-worker in a road building gang in the Coromandel district, circa 1932 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (6 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

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: 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

Date: 1870

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: MapColl-832.41bj/1870/Acc.1191

Description: Relief map of the area from Wanganui to Ruapehu to Lake Taupo, the Kaimanawa ranges to the Rangitikei River. The route of the exploring company is marked from Major A. Marshall's to Lake Taupo including marked sites of their camps with dates. Mr. Birch's sheep track is marked. A note states that A to B is from sketch signed G.F.S. Note on catalogue card states: To accompany: Misc Mss. H8, Report on the practicability of constructing a road from Wanganui to Taupo, 1869. Misc MS H8 is written in pencil on top right of map. Note on bottom left states: Copy f7 Accompanied by a copy of a page from AJHR, 1870, A.-5, p.5. This page includes a report by George F. Swainson with proposals for a road. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour wash on dressed linen. coloured, scale [1:253 440], 91 x 79.3 cm.

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: MapColl-832.1493fbo/[197-?]/Acc.29601

Description: Drawn on a copy of a cadastral map, the annotations depict proposed boundary changes to Hamilton City, areas four, five and six. Shows existing city boundaries and the proposed additions from Waipa County, an addition of 17 hectares in area four, 22 hectares in area five and 32 hectares in area six. Above title is written: 'B'. Other Titles - four Other Titles - five Other Titles - six Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 55 x 42 cm.

Date: 1949

Reference: MapColl-832.15gbbd/1949/Acc.35755

Description: Map shows Kingstone suburb, blocks including Ngorongoro and Te Kono, part of Kapanga Parish, depicting numbered sections within named street blocks, D.P. and C.T. numbers and public roads. The text 'Approved for the purposes of Sec. 24 'Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act, 1949'' is not signed by Chief Surveyor. Note reads 'Lands coloured green and burnt sienna hereon are public roads..' Note coloured shading not visible on this copy. 'File. 14/110' Other Titles - section Other Titles - survey district Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1: 1 584], 81 x 79 cm.

Date: 1800 - 1870

From: W B Chennells :Collection of maps

By: Masterton Public Library

Reference: MapColl-832.16a/[n.d.]/Acc.36912

Description: Manuscript map from Tauranga Harbour, showing Greerton, south along the Waimapu Stream, south to Otane Wainuku, showing road (or track) from Noawato to Te Puke, and from the harbour to Te Puke, from Tauranga through Greerton and south to Noawato and onwards towards Rotorua and a road or track that extends from Greerton and runs parallel to the Waimapu Stream. Also depicts a forest reserve, heavy rimu area, and suggested tramway route from the route in Whakamapama north to the stream. Pencil annotation of 'Kaiwai' is crossed out and replaced with 'Whakamapama'. Extended Title - number Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, part coloured, on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 50 x 26 cm.

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-069

Description: Shows a view looking west towards Auckland and the islands in the Hauraki Gulf, from the hills above Coromandel township, on the northern stretches of the Coromandel Range. Shows a figure on horseback on a steep road climbing up towards the left foreground. Shows the results of some bushclearing activity. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: MapColl-832.1493fbo/[197-?]/Acc.29599

Description: Drawn on a copy of a cadastral map, the annotations depict proposed boundary changes to Hamilton City, area one. Shows existing city boundary along the Waikato River and the proposed addition, an area of 322 hectares. Top middle of map: 'B' Other Titles - one Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 42 x 55 cm.

Date: ca1908-1958

By: Waikato Historical Society

Reference: PAColl-6505

Description: Four photographs: one of the Tattooed Rocks, west of Raglan; one of the site of the brewery of C L Janes now the garden of 2 Cook Street, Hamilton; one of River Road, Hamilton ca 1908 and another as it was in 1955. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-009920 to 009921 and 012562 to 012563 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film negatives and a photographic print

Date: 1863

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-032-1

Description: Looking down from above onto a road carved out through dense bush, with cavalry and infantry marching along it. Large trunks from the cleared bush in the foreground The Library holds another version of this view at A-134-011, from a source other than the Illustrated London news Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 43, November 7th 1863, p. 476 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm