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Date: 1910 - 1930

By: Hazledine, Percival Charles, 1892-1954

Reference: PAColl-3048

Description: Photographs of Invercargill and Southland taken 1910a-1930s by P C Hazledine, portrait and wedding photographer of Invercargill. Includes: two images of nuns of the Good Shepherd; four of the unveiling of the war memorial for Limehills, Barkley, Boggyburn and Otapiri; the North Island Country football team; and the church at Mossburn. Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/1-022076 to 022090, 22123 to 22139, 22472 to 22535, 1/2-186459 to 186490, and 1/4-051320 to 051334 Quantity: 100 b&w original negative(s) Approximate figure. Exact number unknown.

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: ca 1931

From: Lewis, Mr : Photographs taken after the Napier earthquake, 1931

Reference: PAColl-0153-02

Description: People camping by the side of the road, Napier. Most people are gathered around cars that are on the left of the image, and there is a motorcycle which is leaning against a clump of grass. People are also sitting on upturned crates. No tents can be seen. Taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1931. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Camping, Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1934

Reference: PAColl-7010

Description: Photographs of the celebrations for Archbishop Redwood's golden jubliee in 1934 including the mass in Sacred Heart Cathedral, the parade along Lambton Quay, and the assembly in Athletic Park. Also included are events outside the Maori catholic church and presbytery in Otaki. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-094358 to 094381 Quantity: 22 b&w original negative(s) glass. 2 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6968

Description: Photographs of boys practising their diving at Te Aro Baths. One looks as Also includes an image of passengers leaning on the railings of a steamship, possibly one of the harbour ferries such as the Cobarl, and a group of cars and people on the shore at Karaka Bay looking out towards some small boats. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059174 to 059184 Quantity: 11 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Date: [ca 1909-1925]

By: Morrison, John M, active 1883-1951

Reference: PAColl-6494

Description: Photographs of Takapuna and Milford. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-016625 to 016630, 1/2- 031823 and 101744 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: Manuscript material now held at qMS-1398.. Processing information: The majority of the prints do not have negatives.

Date: 1936-1938

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/11

Description: Correspondence and papers re New Zealand Standards Institute (2nd Annual Report), 1938; Upper Hutt Fire Brigade; National Relief Fund for Spanish Refugee Children, 1938; Guildford estate, Silverstream, 1938; New Zealand Forestry League; National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, 1938; state funeral of Sir Truby King, 1938; National Committee of Swimming & Life Saving, 1937; Far East Relief Fund, 1937; fire districts, 1937; water connection at Gracefield Road, 1937; testing of motor vehicles (Chain Testing Stations), 1937; King George V National Memorial Fund, 1937; highway lighthouses, 1937; coronation celebrations, 1937; Eastbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade, 1937; Forest and Bird Protection Society re Days Bay, 1937; introduction of `Milk in Schools', 1937; accommodation for bathers at Waikanae Beach, 1937; night soil depots in Upper Hutt, 1936 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1938 - 1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to motor vehicles, specific brands of automobiles]

By: New Zealand. Transport Department; Owen, Dylan, 1958-

Reference: Eph-A-MOTOR-VEHICLES-1939-01

Description: A warrant of fitness for an Overland car owned by Mr Collins, signed by the examiner Mr Fowler. The speedometer reading at time of issue was 2780, and the vehicle's registration number was 115409. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 77 x 120 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2005.

Date: [ca 1930s-1949]

From: Easterbrook-Smith family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-1065

Description: Photographs of motorsports. Includes photographs of men beside their cars at a motorcycle beach race in Waikanae, Ansaldo automobile, Judgeford hill climb in 1943 and 1945, Alvis automobile, Seaview Road (Gracefield) in Nov 1946, Paekakariki hill climb in 1948/9?. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 295 x 260 mm

Date: [ca 1930s-1940s]

Reference: PAColl-6848

Description: 25 images including two of what is probably earthquake damage to buildings in Hawke's Bay following the 1931 earthquake; four of a gathering at a wool shed flying the union jack (location unknown); one of the war memorial in Cathedral Square, Christchurch; one of a small wooden church without a tower or steeple (location unknown); a general view of the town where the same church is located; two of a derailment; eight of various locomotives, steam, diesel and electric, including one of a railcar sitting at Wellington Railway Station and one of an electric locomotive and carriages at Paekakariki station; one of a line of buses at a rural depot with passengers waiting; two boys and a man next to their car; a boy crouching next to a man; and a landscape (location unknown). Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029898 to 029903, 030017, 030035 to 030036, 030039, 030044 to 030050, 030997, 031000 to 031003, 031006, 031011 and 031015. Quantity: 25 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: ca 1925-1935

By: Cartwright, George, active 1900s-1920s

Reference: PAColl-7240

Description: Series of postcards of Hamilton taken by G Cartwright: children swimming and playing in the lake; cars and a bus travelling along Victoria Street with shops on either side including a billiard room and a dentist; the traffic bridge, with the railway bridge in the distance over the Waikato River, with river boats moored next to it; Soldier's Park; the cenotaph; a steam train going over the railway bridge; and the traffic bridge with parkland in the foreground. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002723 to 002729 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1936-1971

From: Hodge, Horace Emerton, 1903-1958 :Albums and photographs relating to Merton Hodge and the Linney Family

Reference: PAColl-8311-07

Description: Photographs of Merton Hodge, Geoffrey Wardwell and friends in the 1930s; New Zealand family and friends; views of a London street; Merton and Catherine Hodge, their dogs and their Citron car, Dunedin, 1950s; Hodge at Balclutha with Ken and Joan Moore and their son, 1950s; views of unidentified streets, Dunedin; exterior views of the Hodges flat and garden, 1950s; views of Dunedin from the Hodges garden; snaps of Catherine Hodge, friends, and the children of friends. Arrangement: Negatives of most of the Dunedin photographs in this box are at 1/4-110198-F to 1/4-110258-F. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: 1934

By: Christchurch (N.Z.). City Council; Alex Wildey Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MOTOR-VEHICLES-WOF-1934-01

Description: Certificate confirming a car has reliable brakes and lights, issued in Christchurch. This certificate has not been filled in. There is a decorative panel down the left side. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on certificate with perforated left edge, 105 x 163 mm.

Date: [ca 1925-1935]

By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0451

Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1930-ca1935

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

Reference: PAColl-7167-14

Description: Various photographs relating to different places and events. One seems to be a trip to Sydney. There are views of a ship's deck and coastal cliffs. Also several views of the almost completed Sydney Harbour Bridge from what is probably a ferry. Other photographs are from Christchurch, Wellington and harbour, and of Auckland. There are a number of Auckland buildings; the Greenhouse in the Domain, the University, and the Museum. There is a sequence of views of a thermal area and three photographs of Maori. Another group relates to an unidentified sailing ship, and a third to the flax industry in the Horowhenua Many others are views if countryside and coastal land scape Quantity: 137 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1901-1930s]

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

Reference: PAColl-6865

Description: 18 negatives of various scenes. Five are of the fire on Mein Street, Newtown in 1901 which show the chimneys left standing, police at the scene and people's belongings piled up in the nearby town belt; three are of a procession in Wellington; two are of a war memorial; two are of a car; two are of a coal mining railway through the bush probably on the West Coast; one is of a woman in a bathing suit about to dive off a yacht with others on board; one if of Panckhurst & Co Drapery Emporium next to the main post office in Westport; one is of a bridge; and one of a crane towed by a steam locomotive probably next to the Hutt Road. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-032163 to 032180 Quantity: 18 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives