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Date: [ca 1950s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Whites Aviation Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0106

Description: Aerial photograph of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking west towards the Hutt Road and Horokiwi Quarries. Includes Petone Esplanade, Petone Railway Station, Jackson Street, Cornish Street industrial area, etc. Probably taken by Whites Aviation Ltd in 1950s. Inscriptions: Mat recto - centre - Gear Meat Co. Ltd, Petone, New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) hand coloured. Physical Description: 38 x 47.5 cm with mount

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

Reference: PAColl-D-0154

Description: Aerial photograph [?] of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking south-east towards Port Howard. The wharf is partially visible on the right. Jackson Street in in the immediate foreground on left (bottom). Identical image to PAColl-D-0166 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Gear Freezing Works. Copright. Petone. N.Z. A7164 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 297 x 377 mm on card

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

Reference: PAColl-D-0135

Description: Aerial photograph [?] of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking south towards the wharf. In the immediate foreground (on Jackson Street) is a building with an advertisement for Plume benzine. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 127 x 517 mm on card

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1487-F

Description: Panoramic view of Wellington City and Harbour taken from a hill on the way up to Wadestown. Thorndon Quay with Dalgety's Stores are seen on the left, railway yards centre right, with a large area of reclaimed land and areas awaiting reclamation in the centre foreground. Wharves edge the harbour centre right middle distance, city on the right, Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria visible in the right background. Several fishing boats in the harbour. Start of the Hutt Road just visible on the far left, and Petone is in the distance on the far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Wellington Harbour showing Petone 317 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 134.4 cm

Date: 24.9.1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1874-F

Description: Panoramic view over Lower Hutt from the Belmont Hills. Wellington Harbour in the distance on the right with Somes Island on the far right. Petone in the distance near the harbour on the right. Hutt River running from far left, curving out to sea in the middle distance centre right. Three bridges across the river. Township on both sides of the river across the centre of the image. Hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Lower Hutt. 24.9.27. No. 364 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 130.0 cm

Date: 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Blundell Brothers Ltd

Reference: Pan-1995-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down from a grassy knoll over Petone. Wellington Harbour is seen across the image, with Somes/Matiu Island in the centre. Road bridge over a railway line on the far left. Hutt Racecourse amongst houses in the centre left middle distance. Petone Wharf centre right. Photograph taken in 1927 by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Petone. New Zealand. 1927. No. 2; Marginal notes on negative - View Petone. "Blundell Bros."; Marginal notes on negative - 1 1 1 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 120.0 cm

Date: 1926

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1996-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Petone. On the far right there is the side view of a wooden house with tiled roof, and a thatched gazebo in the centre foreground. Wellington Harbour is seen across the image, Petone Wharf in the centre. Buildings of Munt, Cottrell, Neilsen & Co. (Motor body builders) are centre right and the Petone Railway Station is in front of the motor buildings. Stacks of wood at a timber mill in the left foreground. Matiu/Somes island centre left. Photograph taken in 1926 by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Petone. 1926; Marginal notes on negative - Petone. 1926. 1 B&W sample Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 131.8 cm

Date: [ca 1910s-1920s]

From: Thorp, Nigel fl 1995 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1540

Description: Photograph album of views of Taranaki, Wanganui, Napier earthquake, and family scenes. Includes photographs of the Lands and Deeds Office, Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 185 x 320 mm

Date: 1913-1955

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972 :Photographic prints

Reference: PAColl-9942-1

Description: Includes - Postcard views of Wellington, mostly dating from the late 1920s, but several from the early 1920s, and two from the 1930s and late 1940s. Seascapes of Wellington Heads and Wellington Harbour. Two photographs relating to the funeral of Prime Minister William Massey, 1925. Reception of queen Elizabeth II at Wellington Town Hall, 1953/1954. Summer crowd on Island Bay Beach, ca 1930. Horses and carts on a coastal beach. Sail boats and yachts, Wellington. Seascape, Houghton Bay, Wellington. Views of Petone. Views of Lower Hutt, ca 1948. Views of Raumati, Paraparaumu, and Paramata. West Shore Road and Bluff Hill, Napier, after the 1931 earthquake. War Memorial, Picton, late 1920s. Opening of the Estuary (or Pipe) Bridge over the Hutt River, Waione Street, Petone, 1955. Crowd near the Captain Cook Memorial, Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound, probably after the unveiling ceremony, 11 February 1913. Group of unidentified sailors and group of unidentified workers. Motorcars and rifle shooting, ca 1920. View of picnic area, Wilton's Bush, Wellington. Horse and cart in the surf with a load of gravel. Head of a whale harpoon. Truck with Sharlands signage painted on it. Views of Wellington and Harbour, 1930s. Quantity: 100 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1981-1987]

From: Creative New Zealand: Collections relating to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council and Creative NZ

Reference: PA12-5764

Description: Celloist Josephine Young, artist Rhondda Greig, and a dragathon involving children in uniform fancy dress parading down a Petone street. Quantity: 15 colour original transparency/ies.

By: Brown Thomson & Company

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/[n.d.]/Acc.37856

Description: Drawn on a base map, the annotations show owner's names, as a result of sale of sections 1-71, in Hutt main road, Regent Street, Victoria Street, Fitzherbert Street and Sydney Street, Petone. Names include Wilson, Fraser, Pointon, Elaine, H Cook, Ward, Parrant, Jones, Morrison, Walsh, Alexander, W Adams, Ralph, Lash, Mildenhall, Cook, D Jones, Lash. Written on the map is 'Deeds plan no. 205'. Base map: 'For sale. 71 choice building allotments, in the best part of the rising township of Petone......', lithographed by Brown, Thomson & Co, Wellington, [n.d.]. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on lithograph, heat set tissue backing, scale indeterminable, 36.5 x 62 cm.

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

Reference: PAColl-D-0166

Description: Aerial photograph [?] of Gear Meat Company and surrounding area looking south-east towards Port Howard. The wharf is partially visible on the right. Jackson Street in in the immediate foreground on left (bottom). Identical image to PAColl-D-0154 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Gear Freezing Works. Copright. Petone. N.Z. A7164 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 297 x 377 mm on card

Date: 1931-1975

By: Huggan, Lily Annie, 1890-1983

Reference: MS-Group-1505

Description: Papers of Mrs Huggan while she was mayor of Petone. Mainly papers relating to the Petone Borough Council, including agendas, minutes, reports, correspondence etc of the committees on which she was active, clippings, and other papers. Also included are files relating to the reorganisation of local government, and papers of the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council and Hutt Valley Patriotic Welfare Committee. Also included is a scrapbook compiled by Joseph Huggan, 1931-1955, relating to Korokoro and to his time as mayor (from 1950). Pre-1957 Petone Borough Council papers relate to his time as mayor. Source of title - Supplied Annie Huggan was mayor of Petone (1957-1965) taking over from her husband, Joseph, who died in 1957. He was mayor of Petone, 1950-1957. She was very active in local affairs. Quantity: 61 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some duplicated material) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Petone Borough Council per Mr Ted Wolf, Mayor, and Ms Karen Piper, Feb 1989 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Alterations & additions to Petone Borough Council chambers, 1960 [Plans-2006-023].

Date: 1886

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919; Wyles & Buck (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/1886/Acc.9420

Description: Cadastral map of the Pito-one Town Board district, showing sections 1-8 and 79, street layout, property boundaries, numbered residential sections, dwellings, railways, businesses and cemeteries. The town is bounded by sections 19, 78, 16, 17, 9 and 10 and a Native (Maori) reserve. The area west of the Wellington - Napier railway is shaded as hill country. The map includes a large Public Works Department, the Pito-one Station, brewery, timber yard, the Gear Company Works and wharf, Marine Retreat Hotel, woollen factory, schools, Wainuiomata waterworks main, Waltonville, the Working Men's Club, Oddfellows Hall, churches, and two Maori cemeteries (urupa) along the esplanade. Names on the map include: Te Ahi Parara, Te Upoko o te Poaka, Mr Tyer, Mr Kelly (shoemaker), Matene Tauwhare, Mr Reston, Mr Manning, Mr Ridler, Mr Chapman, Dr Hector, and Mr E Barber. This map is an annotated manuscript copy and is uncompleted. See also the completed version, shelved at MapColl-832.4796gbbd/1886/Acc.9419. Other Titles - Plan of Pito-one Town Board district [ms map]. Compiled from official sources by Messrs Wyles & Buck, civil engineers, Wellington, 1886. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour and pencil on paper, linen backed, scale [1:3 960], 55.5 x 96 cm.

Date: 22 March 1986

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

By: Griffiths, Mervyn, active 1978

Reference: EP/1986/1344-F

Description: One-tonne demolition ball swung from a crane in the process of reducing the Petone Borough Council Chambers in Jackson Street to Rubble. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths 22 March 1986. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising three images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: ca 1915, 1931, 1955-1963

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-021

Description: Photographs of Wellington Region, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of Castlepoint lighthouse, street scenes in Martinborough, Featherston and Masterton, construction of the Wellington - Wairarapa railway and aerial photographs of Wainuiomata. Includes two earlier photographs; one of Lower Hutt train station circa 1915 and the reconstruction of Taita Gorge Road in 1931. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1839 - 1840

By: New Zealand Company; Cobham, Samuel, 1799-1881; Dixson Library (University of New England)

Reference: MapColl-832.4796a/1839/Acc.15647

Description: Plan of the proposed city of Wellington that was to be located near the mouth of the Hutt River and Petone, Lower Hutt City. The plan covers 1361 acres, exclusive of streets and terraces, with 261 acres for government purposes, squares, public buildings, hospitals, schools, markets, wharves, and 1100 acres for settlers for building purposes. The town is laid out in a grid pattern, with the Hutt River running through the centre, and a terrace around the periphery. Several blocks on the plan are allocated for specific purposes, such as government offices, prison, public baths, museum, barracks, president's palace, college of surgeons. Four cemeteries are proposed on the corners of the plan, each of eight acres. Note on map says the town is to be surrounded by 1100 farms of 100 acres each. Note on map before copying states each blank square is 8 acres. Stamped Dixson Library, public library of NSW. Note on map before copying: Designed by Samuel Cobham, Newgate Street, where plans may be had. Note on map before copying: W Lake, lith, 50, Old Bailey, London. Written on map: Ca 84/1. See also second, linen backed, copy Acc.1269. The original of this photographic copy, is held in National Archives, LS 2094. (Negative no. 692, JMJ. '11'). See also larger, coloured, mounted copy - MapColl-832.4796a/1839/Acc.15648. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy of lithograph, scale indeterminable, 30.2 x 39.5 cm.

Date: November 1913

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0503-1/2-G

Description: Overlooking Petone with railway yards and Petone station in the foreground. Brown & Allen and the Empire Carriage Factory are in the middle ground. A sign advertising Baker Bros is also visible. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Original print in Godber album Vol 107, p 31 (PA1-o-198) Inscriptions: Album page - Petone. 11/13 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001869-G

Description: A view taken from Korokoro looking down on Petone Railway Station, Hutt Road and south-east to the Gear Meat Company and to the wharf on the waterfront. Jackson Street runs from the railway station to the left of the image. A train has stopped at the station. Identifiable commercial premises are F G Reid; Hurrell & Cronin (G D Cronin. Empire Carriage Factory); Baker Brothers (Estate agents and auctioneers). Photograph possibly taken by William A Price, in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - The Gear Works. Petone. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1911

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0571-1/2-G

Description: Part 1 of a 2 part panorama overlooking Petone. Southward view overlooking Petone township and over towards the eastern Hutt hills. Part 2 at APG-0570-1/2. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1911. Original print of the full panorama in Godber Album Vol 110, p 152-153 (PA1-q-103) Inscriptions: Album page - Petone. 1911 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches