Places

Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

Reference: PA1-q-032

Description: Album contains coloured photographs with views of New Zealand, and some unlabelled family photographs, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, circa 1950s. Images also include three of Oregon and the Oregon State University. New Zealand views are concentrated mainly in the Wellington area including the Wairarapa, Milford Sound and the Dunedin area. Note handwritten at top right-hand corner of the cover reads "Aerial. Qtn-Milford 1957 & Chch-Qtn. (Air & bus)" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album, with "Photographs" lettered in gold, 255 x 380 mm

Date: 1939

From: Weir, B/Kapiti Coast District Libraries: Buckley Collection

Reference: 1/2-057875-F

Description: Group portrait of unidentified boys and young men in a harmonica band at Paekakariki, in 1939. They all hold their `Boomerang' mouth organs. Their teacher stands at the back (wearing a bow-tie). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1931-1946

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-293/2

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1960-1964

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Diaries

Reference: Micro-MS-0600-12

Description: Notes on Adkin's original Maori oral history research which focuses on tribal histories, settlements, and historic sites. Adkin's interviewed Paeroa Wineera and her son Tutuira Wineera (1963) who gave him information on Ngati Toa whakapapa as well as the original Maori place-names for Taupo Pa (ie. Turi-Karewa) and other landmarks around Takapuwahia Pa. Includes notes on Adkin's archeological expeditions in the Mana-Kapiti Coast, Horowhenua, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, and Wairarapa-Palliser Bay districts. Also comprises notes on the Whitireia and Mana Island archeological sites. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 9 February 1976

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1976/0541-F

Description: Member of the Wellington Ladies Surf Life Saving Club works the reel at the Wellington Surf Life Saving Championships, Paekakariki, New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 9 February 1976. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1941-1943

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/13

Description: Correspondence and papers re Victory Book Drive, 1943; lists of Belmont Volunteer Fire Brigade members, also Plimmerton and Paekakariki brigades, 1943; Geographic Board re spelling of Mangaroa, 1942; Wellington Beautifying Society re tree planting at Eastern Bays; list of members of New Zealand Institute of Valuers, 1941; and other matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

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: 1912

Reference: A-090-038

Description: Shows Welch, Higgs' painting-master and friend, sketching at door of tent, camp-fire to left, hills behind; probably on Kapiti, or Wellington's West Coast, in the Paekakariki area Title from verso Inscriptions: Verso - title; Recto - bottom right - S. H. Higgs [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 250 x 354 mm

Reference: MapColl-832.4798gbbd/[19-?]/Acc.12472

Description: Cadastral map with contour lines, showing proposed roading and the subdivision of the Koangaaumu Block, Part Sections 1-5, A-E. Shows unnamed roads and surveyed, numbered sections, and some topographical detail. Other Titles - Plan of proposed roading & subdivision of Part Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5, Koangaaumu Block [copy of ms map]. Block 10 Paekakariki Survey District Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 72.5 x 43 cm.

Date: [ca 1950s-1970s]

From: Nicholls, Trevor, 1929- :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-7483

Description: Colour transparency slides of various parts of New Zealand, taken 1950s-1970s by Trevor Nicholls. Includes: 1-5. Moehau, Coromandel - Parkinson (stonemason) quarry - honeymoon 1956 in Parkinson bach continued from PA12-7482-17/24, 6. Spirits Bay 1960-64, 7. Down to Paekakariki 1957-60, 8. Orere Point (south of Howick) 1957-60, 9. Family Austin, Waiwhetu ca 1957, 10-11. Paraparaumu Airport ca 1957, 12. Levin, ca 1957, 13. Taupo mid 1950s, 14. Bluff fishing boats ca 1975, 15. Dunedin from Larnach c 1975, 16-17. Work on Rongotai 1957-59, 18. DC3 at Paraparaumu 1957-59, 19. Friendship at Rongotai 1965, 20. Rongotai construction, 21-22. Karapiro after 1964, 23-24. Grassmere Jan 1975. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour film transparencies

Date: Between 1948 and 1949

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-003

Description: "Illustrating geological observations, Vol 3". Black & white photographs of geological and geomorphological aspects of New Zealand. Includes images taken on a second visit to the Rotorua area (Oct 4-12 1948), showing lakes, thermal areas, mountain rifts and other geological formations. A boring plant testing the ground on the line of the proposed Rimutaka Tunnel; views of The Terrace, Wellington showing the office building of the New Zealand Geological Survey at 156 The Terrace; Mangaroa Basin plain; Hutt River valley; the Wellington fault scarp along Grant Road; the geology of the Paekakariki area of coastal lowland; the new Wellington City number 2 water supply tunnel from the upper Hutt River (14 Jan 1949). Also shows images taken when attending the Seventh Pacific Science Congress held in New Zealand, January-February 1949, including views of Auckland; "Birchlands" (home of Sir Frank Mappin, Mt Eden, where the Congress garden party was held); Mount Mangere; Auckland Ferry Wharf; an excursion in the Wellington area for the Congress to Baring Head & Orongorongo. Water supply in Paraparaumu, March 25 1949; Visit to East Wairarapa beyond Martinborough (a Victoria University excursion led by Dr A R Lillie and R A Couper), showing Dr Lillie, John Marwick, Thomas Ludovic Grant-Taylor); Castlepoint & the Matapihi Trig Station on the Ruamahanga River, April 14-17, 1949; inland pumice deposit at Waitarere Beach (11 Oct 1949); official inspection of the lower course of the Otaki River (21 Oct 1949) showing the Otaki Railway Bridge with piles beneath the piers exposed by erosion; coast of the Miramar Peninsula.

Date: 1965

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R1/10-Acc.

Description: Identifies existing and proposed reserve for water supply purposes NZMS 15 Survey district series Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Ink and colour on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 40 x 76 cm.

Date: 4 February 1974

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1974/0647-F

Description: Two women being carried on a frame by four men at the surf life saving championships at Paekakariki Beach. Photographed by an Evening post staff photographer 4 February 1974. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1927-1931

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-293/1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1932-1941

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-173/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1955-1960

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-172/6

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2001

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-4265-001/005

Description: Includes maps of the interchange, roundabout, flyovers, ramps, and a cross section of the bridge structure. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on draughting paper, 297 x 420 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1948-1949

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/16

Description: Correspondence and papers include and League for the Taxation of Land Values, 1949; International Motor Cycle Club; scholl bus services for timber mill settlements in Akatarawa and Karopoti Valley; Royal Humane Society of New Zealand awards, 1948-1949; Banks Theatres Ltd re movies at Paekakariki and Paraparaumu on Christmas Day 1948; Universal Business Directories Ltd re Wellington-Hutt-Petone Almanac, 1948; Hutt Valley and Bay Scouts; New Zealand Car Club Inc re hill climbs at Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki; Boy Scout Association Scout Hall at Port Howard and the Jamboree; United Nations Appeal for Children; Government Statistican re place names no longer in use, and population figures of Hutt Valley 1848-1945; Local Government Commission report on inquiry into proposal that Borough of Petone be included in Hutt River District Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Reference: MapColl-832.47962gbbd/[n.d.]/Acc.37928

Description: Cadastral map, with some topographic features, some described, showing subdivisions along the coast from the boundary of the Wainui Block near Paekakariki Reserve to a boundary adjacent to the Wharemauku Stream. Some subdivisions are numbered and others alphabetically listed with names and acreages. Paekakariki Reserve is marked, also Wainui and Whareroa reserves which include native cultivations, Te Puka Reserve, Tamati's Reserve, Wainui Township Reserve, Government Reserve which includes a hut, Matai Huka Reserve. Named streams include the Wainui, Whareroa, Te Puka and Wharemaku. The Whareroa and Wainui blocks are named. Survey points are marked. Owners' names include Francis Smith, A. De B. Brandon, W. Bowler and others, J.E. Smith, O.J.B. Marsh, S. Cemino, P. Brogan, A. Mackay, Spencer, S. Smith, Moran, Henry Lynch, O.J.B. Marsh, Hill, Harris, J.J. Wood. Title assigned by cataloguer Notes in margins list acreages next to various owners' names Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on dressed linen, linen backed, coloured, scale [1:15 840], 39.1 x 96.4 cm.