Places

Date: 1962

Reference: MapColl-832.16gmbd/1962/Acc.28762

Description: Drawn on an outline of the North Island, depicts roads within the service area of the Port of Tauranga, from Auckland southwards to New Plymouth and eastwards to Gisborne and Napier. Also depicts the Tauranga Harbour Board's 1963 District. Reserve copy: MapColl Reserve 832.16gmbd/1962/Acc.28762 Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1: 2 300 000], 33.8 x 21 cm.

Date: 1917

Reference: MapColl-832.1gm/[1917?]/Acc.5844

Description: Hand-traced map with annotations of roads, railways, some of which are proposed, and boundaries covering the area from Cape Kidnappers, including the East Cape, across to Rotorua to Lake Taupo and the Kaimanawa Range. Included in the unfinished reference key are Moa remains etc., Footprints, Remains in caves, Bones, etc. in open, all of which do not appear to be marked on this map. Red ink annotations, written by 'Black', include several points where the height is recorded in feet and notes such as Maori, Volcanic rocks, Massacre Te Kooti, 1869. It is not known if Black's work relates to the black ink annotations which detail the landing of H.M.S. Eclipse at Rangitukia on July 5, 1865 with 120 Militia and 75 Highlanders. The date of the skirmish is given as 18 July and 2 Aug. Kairomiromi. Also recorded is Pukemaire, Oct. 1st, H.M.S. Brick. Inscriptions: Mount recto - centre left - Presented by D & G Hill.; Mount recto - bottom right - Initials [indecipherable] 4.XII.17 Black Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, coloured, scale [ca.1:633,600], 40.6 x 43.2 cm.

Date: 1884 - 1886

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Mary C. Medley's sketch book ; visit to Rotorua before Tarawera eruption [No.] 12. 1884-1886.

Reference: E-377-047

Description: A rural road on the way to Ohinemutu showing rocks and trees on both sides Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Rocks on the way to Ohinemutu Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 210 mm.

Date: 1884 - 1886

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Mary C. Medley's sketch book ; visit to Rotorua before Tarawera eruption [No.] 12. 1884-1886.

Reference: E-377-032

Description: Shows a bend on the road to Ohinemutu with rocks on either side and the sea ahead Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 210 mm.

Date: 1946-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-173

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Government Tourist Gardens and Bath House at Rotorua; pataka at Whakarewarewa; tourists at Whakarewarewa (including couple being welcomed to the village & showing their Volkswagen car in foreground); Lake Rotorua; Lake Rotoma; Lake Rotoehu; Hongis Track Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1984

From: New Zealand. Ministry of Education :Photographs from the Ministry of Works Library

Reference: PA1-o-1301

Description: Photographic record of digging the trench in which to lay the natural gas pipeline through the Waioeka Gorge. Photographed by an unknown photographer from September to December 1984. The pipeline through the Waioeka Gorge carried natural gas between Kawerau and Gisborne. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-7364

Description: Photographs of road building or maintenance, such as straightening curves, on the following highways: Great South Road at Huntly; laying concrete on the Paparua County section of the Christchurch-Dunedin highway; bitumen surfacing on the Kamo town section of the Whangarei-Kawakawa highway; bituminous concrete paving on the Halswell County section of the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; bituminous concrete laying on the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; Great South Road Mercer-Ohinewai section near Long Swamp with workmen's camps in the distance; penetration work on the Waitara-Pukearuhe section of the Auckland-Wellington via Taranaki highway; Goat valley section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopua-Raglan highway looking towards Thames; improved alignment on the Kawhia County section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; the Leslie's Gully section of the Hamilton-Rotorua highway looking towards Tamahere; Auckland-Wellington highway near Wanganui; improved curve on the New Plymouth-Kaimata highway; Great South Road at Long Swamp; Great South Road at Taupiri Gorge; the Rangiriri Hills deviation of the Great South Road; Hamilton-Rotorua highway near Tamahere showing bitumen on tar sealing; Whatawhata-Raglan highway from near Whatawhata; Rotorua-Whakatane highway; widening work on the Coromandel main highway; Auckland-Wellington highway near Lepperton; bitumen surface on Saddle Hill on the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; bitumen concrete at Halswell on the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopu-Raglan highway; Rangiriri deviation. Also included are three unidentified bridges, one built by J T Julian & Son; the bridge at Motueka; a Rotorua County Council speed limit sign on the Ngongotaha bridge; Waitakaruru bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; McCormick's bridge on the Thames Coast highway; replacement of King's Creek bridge on the Gisborne-Napier highway; the Karangahake bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; and railway carts being loaded at Mosgile quarry for the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway. Arrangement: Artifical collection although some of the prints are from the same source (eg 12-004447 and 004448). Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-56..

Date: 29 Dec 1926-13 Feb 1927

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-03

Description: Outward correspondence from Eric Tyndale-Biscoe to his parents Cecil Earl and Blanche Violet chiefly on the topic of a motoring and camping trip he made around the North Island of New Zealand. Letters include description of train travel, camping, trout fishing, driving and road conditions (including other traffic, punctures, getting bogged down, and pot holes), huts "swaggers whare", Waitomo Caves and glow worms, Maori history, manuka, tui birds, and swimming in lakes and rivers. Places he visits include Mokoia, Awakino, Te Kuiti, Waitomo, Hamilton, Tauranga, Whakatane, Opotiki, Gisborne, Lake Waikaremoana, Wairoa, Lake Tutira, and Napier. Also talks about staying in with the Reeves family [Hastings? Havelock North?], teaching, and preparation for his departure from New Zealand. Names mentioned are the Mellish family in Tauranga and the [Gordon?] family (farmers in rural Waikato). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Pen drawn maps show the route taken on the first leg of the journey from Mokoia to Awakino and the second leg from Awakino to Tauranga. Also includes pen illustrations of Mount Taranaki and bush, a tent, and a fishing fly.

Date: [ca 1965-1975]

From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand

Reference: PA12-10628

Description: Slides taken by Muriel Edwards of New Zealand scenes, circa 1960s-1970s. Includes images of the Rakaia River and Highbank power station, Robert Falcon Scott memorial boulder (Queenstown Gardens), Skippers Canyon, Fitzroy Gardens (near Rotorua) and Muriwai's Cave carved entrance. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7813

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington, Desert Road, and Rotorua, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [17 March 1904]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-634-47-3

Description: The Road from Whakatane to Te Teko, pnhotographed during the visit of Lord Ranfurly's party, on St Patrick's Day, 17 March 1904, by Malcolm Ross. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - The Road to Te Teko After attending the St Patrick's Day race meeting at Whakatane, the vice-regal party left for Te Teko at 4pm, and reached their destination by nightfall (source: Malcolm Ross, "Through Tuhoe Land"). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 88 x 117 mm mounted on album page 255 x 287 mm

Date: 1887

From: Menzies, John Henry, 1840-1919 :Sketches by John Henry Menzies of Menzies Bay, Banks Peninsula, drawn in 1887.

Reference: E-003-010/011

Description: Shows a panoramic view of Lake Rotorua at the left, with mountains Wahanga, Ruawahia and Tarawera in the centre background, an arrow pointing behind a hill to Lake Rotomahana, and the end of the Paeroa Range at the right. The old road and the new road are indicated in the right foreground. Extended Title - From Menzies, John Henry, 1840-1919. Sketches by John Henry Menzies ... 1887, pages [10-11 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, on double page spread, 142 x 464 mm.

Date: ca 1924

Reference: PAColl-7325

Description: Copy negatives of photographs in an album. The Mimi valley deviation on the New Plymouth to Te Kuiti highway; the road alongside Porirua harbour showing submerged telegraph poles; men spreading and rolling gravel on the Gisborne to Wairoa highway at Morere; men laying concrete on the Christchurch to Timaru highway; number of horse-drawn carts on a riverbed being loaded with shingle; and horse-drawn scoops collecting shingle from a riverbed for the Hamilton to Rotorua highway. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003415 to 003420 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: [ca 1871-1894]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1008

Description: List of deeds, receipts and other documents forwarded to Kinross & Co, relating to Ngatarawa and other blocks, which includes memoranda by W K McLean relative to Ngatarawa Blocks 4 and 5; draft of proposed reply to natives; receipt, Apirana Te Ururorangi (1894); and part of letter to Sir Donald from unidentified correspondent of Tapuaiharuru re changes to station, local Maori want Land Court to sit at Ohinemutu, development of roads etc so hot springs can become more accessible to tourists, the sale of land said to have gold, near Tuhua and related matters (1875) Language - Receipt and draft of proposed reply Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969