Places

Date: 1972 - 1905

By: Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-010-b

Description: A view of the Bealey River looking towards the Southern Alps. In the left foreground, a road winds around a cliff, a small waterfall crossing the road. A man on horseback is droving sheep around a corner. Reproduction of an original oil painting in the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (Christchurch Art Gallery) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 375 x 534 mm on sheet 516 x 628 mm

Date: 1986

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-C17/1A-Acc.

Description: Identifies public transport routes for Lower Hutt, Wainuiomata and Eastbourne Overlay to NZMS 271 Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Ink on cellulite paper. Scale ca 1: 20 000, 102 x 74 cm.

Date: 1986

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-C17/1B-Acc.

Description: Identifies public transport routes in Upper Hutt NZMS 271 Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Ink on cellulite paper. Scale ca 1: 20 000, 68 x 75 cm.

Date: 1972 - 1905

By: Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-010-a

Description: A view of the Bealey River looking towards the Southern Alps. In the left foreground, a road winds around a cliff, a small waterfall crossing the road. A man on horseback is droving sheep around a corner. Reproduction of an original oil painting in the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (Christchurch Art Gallery) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 375 x 534 mm on sheet 516 x 628 mm

Date: 1972 - 1905

By: Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-010

Description: A view of the Bealey River looking towards the Southern Alps. In the left foreground, a road winds around a cliff, a small waterfall crossing the road. A man on horseback is droving sheep around a corner. Reproduction of an original oil painting in the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (Christchurch Art Gallery) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 375 x 534 mm on sheet 516 x 628 mm

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1863 - 1868

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Australian journal

Reference: E-372-f-015-1

Description: Shows two men with a pack horse walking down the road towards the harbour. Three sailing ships can be seen in Lyttelton Harbour. Other Titles - Lyttelton Harbour Extended Title - From The Australian journal. vol 6, p 505 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 190 x 235 mm

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: F Bradley & Company; Walton, Grahame M, active 2009

Reference: PA1-o-1605

Description: Photograph album of Views and landscapes of New Zealand, Second Series, published by F Bradley & Company. Includes photographs - No. 1 Meeeting of the waters, Oripi; No. 2 Maori group; No. 3 Lake Hope, White Island; No. 4 Timaru; No. 5 The Bealey, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 6 Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula; No. 7 The River Avon; No. 8 Shag Rock, Sumner Road, looking towards Christchurch; No. 9 Princes Street, Dunedin; No. 10 Christchurch; No. 11 Bullock team and wool waggon, Cheviot; No. 12 Oamaru; No. 13 Cheviot Station, Nelson Province; No. 14 Normal School, Christchurch; No. 15 German Bay, Akaroa; No. 16 Port Lyttelton; No. 17 Kawau, Sir George Grey's residence; No. 18 Pink Terrace, Rotomahana; No. 19 Akaroa; No. 20 Rangatata Traffic Bridge; No. 21 Armagh St bridge & watering place, Christchurch; No. 22 River Bealey Crossing, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 23 Post Office, Christchurch; No. 24 View on the Heathcote; No. 25 Russell's Gold Battery, Tararua Creek, Thames Gold Fields; No. 26 Glacier Hotel & Cobb's Coach, West Coast Road; No. 27 Crossing the Teremakau; No. 28 Greymouth, West Coast; No. 29 Kaiapoi, Canterbury; No. 30 Chalky or Dark Inlet; No. 31 Waimakariri Gorge Bridge; No. 32 Nelson; No. 33 Christchurch; No. 34 Group of Maoris, Lake Taupo; No. 35 Alfred Falls, North Island; No. 36 Christchurch; No. 37 Governor's Bay; No. 38 Oamaru; No. 39 Timaru breakwater; No. 40 Dunedin; No. 41 Christchurch; No. 42 Christchurch hospital; No. 43 House of Representatives, Wellington; No. 44 Arthurs Pass; No. 45 The Cave Rock, Sumner; No. 46 Government buildings, Christchurch; No. 47 Otira Gorge; No. 48 The River Avon; No. 49 Group of Maoris, Bay of Islands; No. 50 Sheep mustering, South Canterbury; No. 51 The Christchurch Cathedral, C.E.; No. 52 Nelson Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Transfers - From Published Collections.

Date: 5 Dec 1988 - 05 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA Electricity Centenary Oral History Project Stages I, II and III

By: Macky, James Henderson, 1913-2002

Reference: OHInt-0003/27

Description: Jim Macky describes family background; reference to 'The Macky Family in New Zealand'; childhood; practical work for civil engineering training; early interest in engineering; university training at Auckland and Canterbury Universities, early 1930s; reference to Professor Cull (?); role as engineer at Buller Gorge Railway, late 1930s, for Public Works Department; details of work of concrete technician; mentions 1938 election; reference overseers, Jim Delich, Bill Cadigon, Matt Heffernan; the compressed air operation in bridge construction; experience of the 'bends'; other major constructions; tunnelling; local rugby; reference to Mike Senior, Gordon Fraser, Archie Park. Recalls service in World War II, building railway depots in Italy and Middle East; methods of railway construction, especially completing railway between Beirut and Tripoli; sent to Turkey to plan bases for British army; malaria; marriage; role after the war as engineer at Kaitawa and Karapiro for Ministry of Works; penstock construction; reference district engineer Napier, Jack Gilkinson; role as mechanical engineer at Karapiro; describes Jack Gilkison; final quality of Karapiro job; lack of equipment; reference to Alan Scott, 'the best policeman in New Zealand'; labour mostly manpowered; conditions at camp; Jack Gilkinson's plans for Ministry of Works' camps; visit of Bob Semple and E R McKillop. Discusses reason for being sent to Maraetai as senior engineer in late 1940s; details of planning and mixing concrete; design of metal crushing plant for road metal; type of rock used; details of being in charge of the diversion tunnel; leakage problems due to ignimbrite; details of drilling and filling; Maori employees at Maraetai, reference Jack Judah (?), Mason McDonald, Kingi Taui, Fergie Ngatai, Joe Tairoa; problems with dam construction at Maraetai; establishment of Maraetai Scheme and village of Mangakino; dry summer of 1945 - 1946; trout fishing; the Mangakino community; how set up socially; reference to the Mangakino Hydro Welfare Association; social stratificaton. Recalls role as Resident Engineer at Maraetai; describes George Sherman, overseer; reference to Arnold Clark, Bob Brown, Sid Drinkrow; accidents; relationship with designers at head office; role as project engineer at Mangakino in late 1950s; trip to America to look at latest construction methods and equipment; repairing cracks at Whakamaru Dam; industrial relations; discusses Len Clapham and his effect on many building sites; reference Don Ross, Jock Barnes, Basil Jones; reference to Communists; reference to Sir Basil Arthur. Describes work as Inspecting Engineer in early sixties; work as Director of Roading; funding for Auckland motorway system; travelling; beautification of highways; describes ministers of works, Stan Goosman, Percy Allen, Hugh Watt; describes job as Commissioner of Works in early seventies; dealing with politicians; retirement; mentions being director at Tasman Pulp and Paper Co Limited. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Taupo Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Macky's home at 55 Birch Street, Taupo Accompanying material - Copy of brief biography in Notable New Zealanders, date unknown, p 278; copy of entry in Who's who in New Zealand, 11th ed, 1978; copy of retirement notice in Personal column of New Zealand Engineering, 15 Oct 1973; copy of 'Commissioner farewelled' from Works News, Vol 4, No 3, Spring, 1973; copy of handwritten notes relating to career and aspects of work. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001863 - OHC-001865 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 288. Black and white photographs:-. Jim and Jean Macky, 1988. Jim Macky, ca 1950 Search dates: 1913 - 1988

Date: 20 April 1988 - 20 Apr 1988

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Thomas, Ruth Ida Carter, 1905-1996

Reference: OHInt-0053/27

Description: Ruth Thomas was born in Wellington on 22 July 1905. Describes the circumstances of her birth and her adoption by Edward and Alice Hindley of Tarakohe. Notes that her birth name was Carter. Describes her education, including time at Sacred Heart Convent in Nelson, and early marriage in 1919. Describes finding out about her birth mother and attitudes to adoption then. Talks about her husband and his family background, their marriage, sexual knowledge, childbirth and their family. Recalls their move to Onekaka and his work at the iron works, travel by sea between Golden Bay and Nelson, the isolation of living at Glovers Flat, Anatoki during the Depression while her husband was road building and thrift during the Depression. Gives her views on adoption. Venue - Takaka : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Mrs Thomas' home at Onekaka Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003122; OHC-003123 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 595.

Date: 1927

From: Neill, W T :Negatives and prints of tramping in the Tararuas.

Reference: 1/4-021186-F

Description: Truck, with passengers on the back, on the Mangaroa Hill Road, Upper Hutt. Shows the vehicle on an unsealed road, facing the camera. Photograph taken in 1927 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Date unknown, ca 1910?

Reference: 1/2-056908-F

Description: Covered carriage advertising Smith Bros of Owaka, in mud on the main road to Houipapa, during winter. Date unknown (circa 1910?). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1976

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[Original cartoons published in the Auckland star, 1976].

Reference: A-347-008

Description: Shows a man browsing a rack of books in a bookshop. The titles are: Is there life after death? Flying saucers, Latest report on rapid transit, Visitors from space, Ghosts, The unknown, Will-o'-the wisps. Refers to the fact that a planned rapid transit scheme seems very unlikely to eventuate. Other Titles - Supernatural and psychic phenomena Inscriptions: Recto - top left - BROMHEAD Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on sheet, 162 x 228 mm, stuck to board (title stuck to board separately)

Date: 2009

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0011207

Description: Caricature of Transport Minister, Steven Joyce, who is shown driving an earth moving machine. Steven Joyce has announced that the NZ Transport Agency has identified more cost effective options for the construction of the Waterview Connection section of Auckland's Western Ring Route. Many people will have to be rehoused or their houses moved elsewhere. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: Feb 1951

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: 1/2-030096-F

Description: Luxury Landlines Ltd bus (`Valiant' make, `Leyland' model, S-970/P) on State Highway 1 between Auckland and Wellington, on the eastern side of Lake Taupo. The driver and his passengers can be seen through the windows. Photograph taken in February 1951 by Edward Percival Christensen. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top right - A22,714 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1864

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to roads, road building and maintenance, motorways in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-ROAD-1864-01

Description: Arrangement of printed and handwritten text on blue ticket. A border of looped lines runs down the left hand side. The ticket is signed by William Gill, first gate keeper at the Kai Warra Toll Bar. The first toll gate was established at Kaiwharawhara in 1863, and remained there until 1890 (See Onslow historian, volume 10, number 2 (1980), pages 13-21). The ticket is for sixpence (6d). A horse, saddled or harnessed, would have cost sixpence to get through the toll gate. A mule or an ass would also have cost sixpence if saddled or harnessed. For a full set of the toll charges, see the Onslow historian article above, page 13. The toll gate was installed in 1863, and was unpopular; see http://www.wcl.govt.nz/heritage/onslowboroughcouncil.html, where the following statement appears: "One of the main reasons these areas lobbied to break away and create the new Onslow Borough was the resentment many residents felt towards a toll-gate which had been established by the Hutt County Council on the Hutt Road at Kaiwharawhara. This imposed a toll of 1 shilling on all vehicular traffic entering or leaving Wellington (the equivalent of a charge of about $5 today) with saddled horses being charged half that rate. This was a major revenue stream for the Hutt County [after 1876] but much of this money was spent on distant road improvements that provided no benefit to those living closer to Wellington". There is also useful historic background information at http://wellington.govt.nz/~/media/recreation/walks-and-walkways/files/heritage-trails/northernsuburbs01.pdf?la=en Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Other Titles - Kaiwarra Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on ticket.. Physical Description: Letterpress on card , 90 x 56 mm.

Date: 2002

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009317

Description: Shows three representives thinking about Auckland Traffic Planning. The first is representing 'Roading' and thinks of more roads. The second represents 'Urban planning' and thinks of give way signs. While the third and final representative for 'Public Transport' can not think of anything. Refers to the problem of Auckland traffic. See DCDL-0009317 for colour version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DX-022-199

Description: Deputy Prime Minister, Michael Cullen, makes an omelette; he takes eggs from a bowl labelled "NZ motorist", and breaks them into a hot fryingpan labelled "Auckland motorways". Refers to the huge amount of government funding allocated to improving the Auckland motorway. Extended Title - NZ motorists. Auckland motorways. Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: 8 Feb 1945

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-001293-F

Description: Droving a flock of sheep on a highway, during a wet day in the Wairarapa, photographed 8 February 1945 by John Pascoe. Looks along the road, showing sheep spread across its entire width. On one side of the flock stands the drover with his bicycle and a group of sheep dogs. Sheep trucks, and cars, wait on the other side. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 21293 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 2002-2006

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000375

Description: Photographs relating to rail and road. Includes photographs of the steam locomotive Sharon Lee hauling coal and passengers on the Tranz Scenic rail system, and the Interislander ferry coming into Picton. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Rail-Road - things" Quantity: 60 digital photograph(s).