Places

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: 1893

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Wairakei. 1893, and 1900s onwards ]

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Wairakei-1893-01

Description: An arrangement of text on a card describing the attractions of the Wairakei area, whose principle sights were: Tuhuatahi (Great Caldron [sic]), Dragon's Mouth and Cascade Geyser, Lightning Pool, Black Geyser, Eagle's Nest, Devil's Tollgate, Great Wairakei, Prince of Wales' Feathers, The Mirror, Twin Geysers, the Great Blow Hole or Devil's Trumpet, Huka Falls, Arateatea Rapids. Card is reprinted from page 130 of W T Cunningham's "New Zealand as a tourist & health resort : a handbook to the hot lakes, the cold lakes, sounds, etc." (1893) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Black and white print on card 150 x 96 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in February 2015

Date: 14 July - 2 Oct 1993

Reference: OHColl-0619/1

Description: E korero ana a Bubbles mo nga ahuatanga noho i te wa i a ia e tipu ake ana i Whakarewarewa, te reo pakeha, mo tetahi pakiwaitara o Te Arawa me tetahi ano e pa ana ki te putake o nga wahi ngawha. E whakamarama ana ia mo tana mahi kaiarahi, mo te mana whakahaere o nga kaiarahi i tona wa me mua atu o te tau 1938, mo nga ture me nga tikanga raupapa mo nga kaiarahi, e korero ana hoki mo te 'hinengaro' Maori, mo o ratau kakaku mahi, te whakaingoatanga i nga ngawha me nga puna me te nehu tupapaku i nga wahi pera i a Whakarewarewa. E maumahara ake ana ki tetahi kohimuhimu 'not much of a guide is she', mo wetahi ahuatanga o te arahi turuhi, mo te rahuitanga i te rohe potae o nga ngawha o Whakarewarewa me te tuwheratanga i te kura whakairo. Nga korero mo Millie, Sophia, Bella, Maggie Papakura, Alf Warbrick, Dick Tom, me Mike Moore. Nga turuhi i haramai ma runga tima, te wa e nui ana te mahi, te whakatipu rakau, te tiaki tamariki, nga wahine ki te tiaki i nga kainga. Sophia me te wa i pahu ai a Tarawera, he whakamarama mo te hanga piupiu, ana whakatau kia ratau e ahei ana ki te arahi turuhi. Bubbles talks about life in Whakarewarewa, learning English, Te Arawa waka region and a legend about how the thermal regions came to be. Discusses how she became a guide, management of guiding 1938 and prior, 'native intelligence' from mentors, uniforms, male guides, naming of geysers and hot pools. Describes burials in the geothermal area. Recalls experiences with tourists, describes tour tracks and time it took to take a group, group numbers per guide. Talks about their uniforms and payment, rules, discipline and regulations, the government and private reserves, the Carving School. Mentions guides Millie and Bella, Guide Sophia, Maggie Papakura, Mike Moore, Alf Warbrick and Dick Tom and the tourists from cruise ships. Refers to time of no unemployment, forestry, childcare and women keeping the home fires burning. Talks about Guide Sophia and the Tarawera eruption, some of the processes for making piupiu and a message to those considering guiding as a vocation. Interviewer(s) - Dr Keith Dewar Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s).

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Fijn, Jan (John) Reinder, 1910-2003 :Transparencies, particularly relating to the royal visit to Waitangi in 1963, and to Maori

Reference: PA12-10654

Description: Colour slide photographs taken by John Reinder Fijn in a number of Maori communities and at tourist site, circa 1960s. Contains images of cows being mustered along gravel and sealed road by men on horses with huntaways and other dogs at Waipiro Bay as well as one image of a girl riding a grey horse in the same area. Images of Guide Rangi at Whakarewarewa (one with tourist group) as well as two unidentified guides, a Catholic tangihanga at Jerusalem, and of Turangawaewae Marae are also included. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour phototransparencies

Date: 8 - 9 March 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8785

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes views of Lake Taupo; Geyser Valley and an unidentified guide at Wairakei; geothermal bores and power station; Lake Rotorua, and trout at the Fairy Springs. Slides on this sheet are numbered 326-351 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 327, 342, 344-346, 348-351) showing steam holes near Lake Taupo, Rotorua Park Square Steam Venture, the Grand Hotel and gardens, and the carved meeting house and scenes of thermal activity at Whakarewarewa. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1986

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-507

Description: Shows a group of tourists standing with cameras beside Pohutu Geyser waiting for it to erupt. A woman guide, dressed in traditional Maori costume, is explaining to the tourists that it will erupt just as long as the people of Rotorua are not using hot water which will drain the pressure out of the geyser. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon, letratone and chinese white on paper, 340 x 390 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: [ca 1908]

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

Reference: 1/2-001511-G

Description: View of a woman holding a parasol with a Maori guide. They are standing on the terraces near a geyser in the Whakarewarewa thermal area. The geyser is possibly the Wairoa Geyser. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Note on back of file print identifies the geyser as either Wairoa Geyser or Waikorohihi Geyser Relationship complexity - Same women in 1/2-001512 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1933

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to Maori. 1930s].

Reference: Eph-B-MAORI-1933-01-11

Description: Shows the guide Susan and several other Maori women standing beside the Papakura Geyser at Whakarewarewa. The photograph is by the New Zealand Tourist Department and the text is extracted from James Cowan's "The Maori". Extended Title - From its [Calendar, featuring Maori scenes. 1933]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page of calendar, 167 x 267 mm.

Date: [ca 1908]

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

Reference: 1/2-001512-G

Description: View of a woman tourist with a Maori guide. They are standing on the terraces near a geyser in the Whakarewarewa thermal area. The geyser is possibly the Wairoa Geyser. There is a notice in the immediate foreground asking visitors to keep off the terrace formation. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Note on back of file print identifies the geyser as possibly Wairoa Geyser Relationship complexity - Same women in 1/2-001511 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1903 - 1915

By: White, Benoni William Lytton, 1858-1950

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Maori-01

Description: Includes views of: Waimangu Geyser (ca 1906), Maori belle Putika (ca 1915), Malfroy Geyser and Government Sanitorium, Rotorua (ca 1903?), Wairua Falls (ca 1905), "Hongi" or Maori greeting (ca 1909), Lake Tarawera (ca 1906), Maories cooking breakfast in hot springs, Whakarewarewa (ca 1910), Sophia's whare Te Wairoa (ca 1914), The Presbyterian Maori Girls' school (ca 1905), Lake Rotorua / Benoni White, A D Willis (ca 1907), Maggie Maori guide (ca 1910). Quantity: 11 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (postcards). Physical Description: Photolithographs, mostly black and white, on postcards 89 x 140 mm.