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New Zealand events - Miscellaneous
Date: Apr 1949
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181
Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, Apr 1949 Scene at the civic reception held in Dixon Park, Greymouth to honour the visit of HMNZS Kaniere, one of the new frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Cromwell racecourse; action photos from Ngaruawahia's annual regatta (includes young Maori boy eating watermelon); Maori deputation visiting Parliament to discuss the question of liquor licence in the King Country (includes portrait of 78 year old Mrs A Huirama); exhibition held in Christchurch of Japanese wood-block colour prints compiled by K R Moshelm, a former director of Army Education and Welfare Service in Japan; Bailey bridge on Lewis Pass Road, near Glen Wye Station; photo of family of Gilbert Edwards, a Dunedin claimant to the fortune of a Welsh stonemason who immigrated to New York and died in 1789 (story in Free Lance, 20 Apr 1949). Makara Radio Station (series of photos including A F Smith, officer in charge of Makara Radio Station); Star Rugby Club, New Plymouth 60th jubilee celebrations and members of the 1919-1939 decades in the grand parade held at Rugby Park; limestone caves recently discovered at Lake Te Anau (Cave of Swirling Waters). Final section of the main highway between Auckland and Te Kuiti under construction (Mayor of Te Kuiti, K W Law watching final load of metal chips being laid); composting of Masterton's refuse; construction of the road at Belmont Gully and Haywards (Hutt Valley); repair of fault in the Auckland-Suva cable by Government steamer Matai; Union Steam Company's vessel Waitemata en route to Vancouver rescuing converted Fairmile launch Mahurangi in Pacific Ocean near Rarotonga. All Black captain Fred Allen, with former All Black Trevor Berghan and Mrs Berghan in fancy dress costume; Chinese crew's arrival in Auckland to take over the Union Steam Ship Company's vessel Kaikorai at Port Chalmers (sold to Hwah Lee Steam Ship Company of Shanghai) Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Street view at Ngaruawahia, ca 1910
Date: Ca 1910
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-001593-G
Description: View along a wide road at Ngaruawahia with houses on the left. Two young girls are going away from the camera, centre left. Photographed in summertime. See a similar image at 1/2-001592, taken in winter, with the two trees centre right without leaves. Photograph taken by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ngaruawahia. No. 3642 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches