Places

Date: [ca 1930's]

From: Mosen, Neville Herbert, 1914-2004: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1867

Description: Photograph album created by Neville H Mosen of Raetithi. Contains views related to trips taken by the Tongariro Tramping Club and views related to the Mosen family and friends. Taken by Neville Mosen circa 1936 to 1937, and possibly some taken by other unidentified photographer(s). Contains scenic views and views of the Club members on bush walks and skiing in Tongariro National Park, featuring Ruapehu, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and surrounding environs, the Pinnacles at Blue Bluffs, Ruapehu crater lake, Tama Lakes, The Chateau, Whakapapa glacier, Karioi Lakes, Mangawhero River and various tramping huts. Bruce Davis, an amateur photographer who lived in Raetihi is identified. Also includes views of Raetihi township and Horopito locality, Napier, Tauranga (rail bridge and The Strand), and Ngauruhoe erupting (possibly 1937 eruption). Also includes views of Tom Parker posing with the fountain he gifted to Napier in 1936 and scenes of a parade and bonfire in Raetihi to mark the coronation of King George VI in 1937. Also includes the wedding of Gwen Wise (circa 1930s) 5 loose prints have page numbers noted and are in an envelope at the front of the album. Source of title - title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black album bound with string and featuring an embossed image of mountains and a sun and the word 'Photographs' on the front cover, 21.5 x 27 cm

Date: nd

By: Denne, Archibald, Harry, 1900-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-10887

Description: Includes reference to his teaching at Taihape and Oxford, experiences in Maori schools in the Northland and on the East Coast, relations with Sir Apirana Ngata and others, and experiences in Fijian and Chatham Island schools. Includes some sketch maps of the areas mentioned Denne was an inspector of Maori schools 1933-1937, inspector of schools 1938-1947 and senior inspector of schools in Hawke Bay 1947-1948 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (85 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - One cartoon entitled `AHD inspects the sewing'.

Date: 1931 - 1962 - 1984 - 1956 - 1974 - 1995

By: Frank Mason & Son (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Mason

Description: Mail order catalogues listing roses for sale from this Feilding nurseryman. Years held are: 1931 (2 copies), 1937, 1943, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956 (2 copies), 1962 (2 copies), 1963 (2 copies), 1964 (2 copies), 1965, Spring 1966, 1969, 1970 (2 copies), 1972, 1973 (2 copies), 1974 (2 copies), 1984, 1985 (2 copies), 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 (2 copies), 1990 (2 copies), 1991, 1992 (2 copies), 1993, 1994, 1995. Quantity: 26 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, each around 215 x 140 mm. Transfers: Collection received in Ephemera. Alouette catalogues for Spring 1984 and Autumn 1985 offered to Serials (which has others).

Date: 1931

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Atkins & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-032-002

Description: Shows details and elevation showing roof braces. Other Titles - Wanganui Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on tracing paper, 580 x 760 mm.

Date: [ca 1936-1950s]

Reference: PAColl-6829

Description: 11 scenes of crowds awaiting the arrival of the first rail car on the line at Pahiatua. They include one of the crowd on the Masterton platform; another taken from the middle of the tracks with the crowds looking towards the photographer; and another of a man addressing the crowd from the driver's compartment. A railcar of the type in the photographs was trialed in May 1936 but these images look as if they were taken later. Seven railcars were built and the one in this collection is most likely to be Maahunui with the running number 4, as part of the name is visible in 1/4-029734. The railcar had a petrol engine, a lavatory, electric light and hot air heating and was driver controlled (information from Godber album PA1-q-101 p.96). Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029731 to 029741 Quantity: 11 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1918-1933, 1940-1945

By: Tommy Chan & Company

Reference: 2005-123

Description: Correspondence, notes, registers, ledgers, order and docket books relating to Tommy Chan & Company's business in Ohakune and Raetihi. Also includes 13 hand written booklets and notebooks in Chinese. Tommy Chan & Co, greengrocers and storekeepers, was established in 1916 and had stores in Ohakune and Raetihi Quantity: 23 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 1 box(es) (13 pieces). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by C Chan-Hyams, Wellington, 2005

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: [Between 1927 and 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-5642-1/4-G

Description: Palmerston North, photographed between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Date estimated by cataloguer, from known beginning of Evening Post negative collection in 1927, and commencement of numbered sequence in late 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1930 - 1933

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-756

Description: Includes pencil sketches with colour notes, of Mount Taranaki, house and trees at J P Murphy's farm Taranaki, Patea 3/3/30, sketches from steamer from Pipiriki down to Wanganui leave 6 a.m. arr Wanganui about noon, Pipiriki March 1930, Ruapehu from Ohakune, [waterfalls and rapids], after leaving Waiouru, from Hikitahi. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black-covered softbound notebook of 60 leaves, each 178 x 118 mm.

Date: 1930

By: Fifield, W E, active 1930s

Reference: MapColl-832.18cdc/[ca.1930?]/Acc.5829

Description: Hand-drawn map of the area from Taumarunui following the main trunk line and the Ongarue River northwards to Mangeokewa River to the Waikato River and Waihaha River to Waituhi. Creeks, streams and rivers are named, some marked in blue. Watersheds of the Mokau, Wanganui and Waikato Rivers are prominently marked as are land blocks and mountain peaks which include height in feet. Lines of the Taringamotu Company's Tram and the Mangapehe Tram are drawn and the map includes many references to tram formations. Directions with mileages are given to Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, coloured, scale [1:63 360], 87.5 x 78.2 cm.

Date: ca 1930

By: Kreeft, E G, active 1980

Reference: PAColl-1944

Description: Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on album pages.

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: 1929 - 1934

From: [Ephemera and theatre programmes for performances of opera and light musicals in New Zealand 1930-1935].

By: Keeling & Mundy (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1930s-01

Description: Programme for a production in Palmerston North, containing sketches. The main performers were: Pats [sic] Mills, Marjorie Statham, Cecile Duncan, Joan Evans, Valmai Cooke, Eileen Wood, John Duncan, Ted Pope, Claude Batten, Sheila Todd, Grace Booth, Isla Blair, Marjorie Ward, Jean Webster, Frank Reding, Ross Gore, Eru Gore and Pat Ward. Dated ca 1929-1934 because Mr Clement May is know to have been in New Zealand in those years. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, of 8 pages, each 245 x 387 mm. Provenance: Donated to the Wairarapa Archive by Mr Terry Tatham, from the collection of his mother, Karen Glasgow.

Date: [Between 1933 and 1945]

From: Paddy, Laurence George Malvern, 1906?-1971: Photographs relating to the Lauri Paddi Band

Reference: PA1-q-182

Description: Photographs relating to the dance band scene in New Zealand in the 1930s and 1940s, largely associated with Lauri Paddi (aka Laurence George Malvern Paddy] and various bands. Many of the images are signed by musicians in the bands, not all the signatures being legible. Names have been listed where possible. Musicians with signatures Ian H Pitcaithly, W O Pritchard, and Jeffrey Madden, are probably the same as musicians listed on a poster for the Auckland Peter Pan Orchestra (Nin Pitcaithly, Billy Pritchardt, and Johnny Madden). One series of photographs shows musicians performing with Lauri Paddi going on tour in the South Island, including two views taken from a car, following a train on the road/rail Rakaia Bridge. The stage show 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' was performed at the Paramount Theatre, Wellington, in 1944. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with light brown mottled pattern, entitled `Photographs'; 25.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: [193-]

Reference: PA9-018

Description: Photograph of steam boats at Pipiriki landing, Whanganui River, taken 1930s by Neville James Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Pipiriki Landing, Wanganui R. Taken by Neville James in the Thirties Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.3 x 15 cm, in frame 32.1 x 27.2 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Possibly part of a larger collection.

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Between 1927 and 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-5654-1/4-G

Description: Palmerston North, photographed between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Date estimated by cataloguer, from known beginning of Evening Post negative collection in 1927, and commencement of numbered sequence in late 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [Between 1927 and 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-5637-1/4-G

Description: Palmerston North, photographed between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Date estimated by cataloguer, from known beginning of Evening Post negative collection in 1927, and commencement of numbered sequence in late 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [Between 1927 and 1932]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-5651-1/4-G

Description: Palmerston North, photographed between 1927 and 1932 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Date estimated by cataloguer, from known beginning of Evening Post negative collection in 1927, and commencement of numbered sequence in late 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1938

By: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953

Reference: Plans-84-0005

Description: Plan of drains, new shop and side view of Mr G Oxley's primises Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on greaseproof paper