Places

Date: 1931 to 1934

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-116

Description: Album of tramps, camps, and other boy scouting activities, chiefly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock, who was an active scout member and later scout master during the 1930s at Otorohanga. Maori legends and hand-drawn maps accompany the photographs, bringing New Zealand geography and history alive to the young scouts. Outings include following Te Kooti's trail, searching for caves where moa bones have been found, and climbing to various trig stations in the Waikato area. Other images show competitions for scouting badges and first aid instruction. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leatherette cover, loose-bound album, 18 x 30 cm

Date: [ca 1926]

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1053

Description: A motor tour in the North Island of New Zealand. The album opens at Napier City and includes views of places, bush scenery, rivers, lakes, and camps as the party moves through Hawke's Bay, the Gisborne Region, the Bay of Plenty, then across and into Taranaki via Mount Messenger and back to Wellington via New Plymouth and Wanganui. There are views of Wellington and Newtown Park during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1926, Wellington Harbour, Haughton Bay, Porirua Hospital, and Khandallah Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1939 to 1950

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-237

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Sir Thomas Hunter, between 1939 and 1950. Many of the scenes show camping holidays, with camping sites at Whangamata (two holidays, January 13-29, 1939; and January 26 to February 16 1940), Gisborne, Wairoa, Napier, Palmerston North, Taupo, and Waikanae. The album is split in two, with half starting at one end, and the other half starting upside down at the other end of the album (tete-beche). Two photographs show Thomas Hunter with his son Irwin wearing army uniform, taken in 1940. The last few scenes are of Thomas Hunter's home at 10 Clermont Terrace, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, lacks cover; 18.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1224

Description: Mainly a series of holidays, tramping trips, and local excursions. The first is a trip to the head of Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound via the Milford track. It begins on the road between Glenorchy and Paradise, then through the valley of the Route Burn River to the Hollyford Valley where the party camped on the shores of Lake Howden. From there they passed Lakes Fergus and Gunn into the Eglinton River Valley and on to Te Anau, and then onto the Milford track to Milford Sound via the Clinton River Valley. Images on the way include Mount Balloon, Mount Elliott, Routeburn Hut, and Lake Ada. There is a view of Mitre Peak, Mount Tutoko, and the Pembroke Glacier from Milford Sound. The second series relates to a camping trip to Wanganui and the Whanganui River. This includes a game of golf and visiting friends in St John's Hill. There are views of the party's camp and a number of images taken during a canoeing trip up the Whanganui River in what looks like a Maori dug out canoe. Two other images in this group are of men standing beside the trigs on Mounts Holdworth and Dundas in the Tararua Ranges. The third series is of family and friends at home in Eastbourne and in the bush at Muritai; Girdlestone, a friend, and two women on motor cycles on the coast road; views of Eastbourne from the hills above the suburb; women on the beach and reading at home. The fourth series relates to a trip to the Volcanic Plateau during which the party climbed Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. There are two group photographs of the whole party, one taken in front of the Waihohonu Hut, and the other on the summit of Mount Ruapehu. The fifth series shows a party of men and women on a walk and a picnic in the beach forest in Gollan's Valley near Eastbourne. The sixth series is a record of a holiday to Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds taken by a group of men over Christmas 1913. There are views of the sounds and surrounding landscape, of Portage where the party stayed, and of boat and fishing trips that they made during their stay. The seventh series is of a tramping trip to the Orongrongo River Valley. The views are of native forest, the river and the mountains, and one of two men boiling a billy beside their tent in the bush. The eighth series consists of two photographs of the wreck of the "Devon" on the rocks at Pencarrow Heads, Wellington harbour. This occured on the 25th of August 1913. The ninth series is a group of photographic postcards of the Te Anau, Milford region, and probably relate to the trip recorded at the beginning of this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1927

Reference: PA1-o-444

Description: Photographs of the Royal visit in 1927 of the Duke and Duchess of York, taken by an unidentified photographer. None of the photographs have captions. Images include the royal entourage driving or travelling by train through New Zealand countryside in the South Island and the North Island; various ceremonies, welcoming crowds, a large group of nurses lining the steps up to a hospital, various dignitaries, and inspection of troops and police. Two photographs show the Royal camp at Tokaanu, and one shows rows of people seated at tables in the open air. A number of more personal images show the Duke and Duchess, the Duke outside smoking a pipe, the Duke at a racecourse with a trotting horse and sulky, and the Duke and Duchess fishing near Turangi. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; entitled "Photographs" (stamped in lower right corner); 18.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: [Chiefly between 1934 and 1947]

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

Reference: PA1-o-194

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber, chiefly between 1934 and 1947, but including copies of some of his earlier photographs. Views include trips in the North and South Islands, and views of his home and family, especially in Whiteman's Valley Road and the area around Silverstream. Also various scenes of floods (Hutt River), and storm damage. Photographs associated with roads and railways include steam locomotives, tunnels, bridges and viaducts, some under construction. Among the trip photographs are views of Ngaruawahia, including King Koroki's house (opened in 1938) and the Maori Parliament House. Other views of Maori interest include meeting houses, rock paintings and wood carving. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 100 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 26.0 x 33.5 cm

Date: 1930s

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-117

Description: Album created by George Rainsford Craddock as a record of scouting trips in the King Country and Waikato, which followed ancient Maori trails, and historic quests. Maori legends and history in the form of newspaper cuttings attached to the album pages, which Gerald Craddock wrote himself, are interspersed with quotations from famous writers, and with photographs of the boys in the various areas. Some of the boys are identified, but only with Christian names Inserted in the front of the album is a slip dated October 1941 which mentions three of the boys (again only with Christian names) from his scout group who were killed in the second World War. Joe (an airgunner) came down 200 miles from Malta, in the sea in 1941; Basil (pilot) died when his plane crashed at Lossiemouth, Scotland in 1941; and John was brought down by a sniper's bullet in Iraq just before war broke out. Inscriptions: Album page - "Being an illustrated record of some fifteen scout camps, which I hope will prove an inspiration, and provide a romantic quest for Boy Scouts of the Waikato and King Country to follow. G.R. Craddock, February 1933" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown card-covered album entitled "The land of the faerie, beneath King Country skies. Leaves from a rambler's notebook" (by G.R.C.)

Date: 1912-1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1223

Description: There are three general groups of images in this album. The first records a holiday to the Volcanic Plateau, taken by a group of men over Christmas 1912, where they climbed Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. The story starts with the group outside the 14 miles stables where they hired a wagon to transport them into the mountains. The route they took was from the north eastern side of Ruapehu to the Waihohonu Hut situated between Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. They climbed Te Heu Heu Peak and then trekked across the snow to the Crater Lake returning to Waihohonu Hut and a dip in the Waihohonu Stream. The next day they set out for Mounts Ngarauhoe and Tongariro. They paused at the source of the northern branch of the Waihohonu Stream on their way to climb to the crater of Ngarauhoe. By the end of the day they reached the Ketetahi Hut on the northern slopes of Tongariro near the Ketetahi Springs. The next day they tramped out via Lake Rotoaira to Tokaanu where they set up camp on the shores of Lake Taupo. The Party then moved north to Wairakei and Rotorua taking in stops at the Huka falls and the Aratiatia Rapids. From Rotorua they returned to Wellington by train. The next group records a hunting trip into what is today the Haurangi State Forest Park in the south eastern Wairarapa in February 1913. There are views of the camp with Girdlestone's mother and another woman visiting. The area depicted is in the valley of the Turanganui River and the surrounding hills. Images include native forest views, a forest fire, hunting pigs with dogs, riding horses, the corpses of wild pigs, groves of Karaka trees, and partly cleared land. The third group of images are of social and sporting events associated with two houses. In both cases the sport depicted is men and women playing tennis. Other images include a child driving a peddle car, views of the "Devon" wrecked on the rocks at Pencarrow Head 25th of August 1913, and women and children with horses. The last image in the album is that of a young woman writing as she holds a telephone reciever to her ear. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1861 - 1880 - 1862

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-010/011

Description: Shows a broad view of Mount Ruapehu at the left, Ngauruhoe smoking at the right, and Tongariro in the extreme right distance. The wedge shape in the centre foreground may be a rock or a tent. Other Titles - Para te tai tanga, South peak of Ruapehu N 60 W; Ngauruhoe; Tongariro; Sources of Wangaehu and Waikato Rivers Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], pages [10-11 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on double spread, 145 x 470 mm

Date: 1927

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

Reference: Pan-2226-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a clearing to a collection of tents. Some of the larger tents are partially visible amongst trees in the middle distance centre left. Two cars are parked in front (number plate of one: 24-932. R.M.T. Co.). Four men are standing on the far right, and there are three people seated on the ground outside a tent in the middle distance on the left. Various trees surround the campsite. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inserted in the container is a line of masking paper shaped for the sky in the image. Refer also Pan-2111 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Royal Fishing Camp. Tokaanu. 1927; Marginal notes on negative - HRH Duke of York's camp on Tongariro River, N.Z. No. 1 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 22.7 x 124.3 cm

Date: 29 Dec 1926-13 Feb 1927

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-03

Description: Outward correspondence from Eric Tyndale-Biscoe to his parents Cecil Earl and Blanche Violet chiefly on the topic of a motoring and camping trip he made around the North Island of New Zealand. Letters include description of train travel, camping, trout fishing, driving and road conditions (including other traffic, punctures, getting bogged down, and pot holes), huts "swaggers whare", Waitomo Caves and glow worms, Maori history, manuka, tui birds, and swimming in lakes and rivers. Places he visits include Mokoia, Awakino, Te Kuiti, Waitomo, Hamilton, Tauranga, Whakatane, Opotiki, Gisborne, Lake Waikaremoana, Wairoa, Lake Tutira, and Napier. Also talks about staying in with the Reeves family [Hastings? Havelock North?], teaching, and preparation for his departure from New Zealand. Names mentioned are the Mellish family in Tauranga and the [Gordon?] family (farmers in rural Waikato). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Pen drawn maps show the route taken on the first leg of the journey from Mokoia to Awakino and the second leg from Awakino to Tauranga. Also includes pen illustrations of Mount Taranaki and bush, a tent, and a fishing fly.

Date: 1927

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

Reference: Pan-2111-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a bend in the Tongariro River at a collection of tents amongst trees in the centre middle distance. There are lines of light-coloured marker stones around the tents. Bush on the far right, the far left, and in the distance. Stony beach in the foreground. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-2226 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Tongariro River. New Zealand. No. 694; Marginal notes on negative - Tongariro River showing fishing camp, HRH Duke of York. 1927 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 131.2 cm

Date: 1927

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

Reference: Pan-2110-F

Description: Panoramic view showing the Tongariro River on the left, looking across a grassy area to a line of tents amongst trees, centre right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Fishing camp. Tongariro River. New Zealand. No. 695; Marginal notes on negative - Fishing camp. HRH Duke of York. Tongariro River. No. 2. Bright green tops to tents Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 137.2 cm

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7816

Description: Transparency slides of East Coast, Tauranga and Coromandel, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7813

Description: Transparency slides of Wellington, Desert Road, and Rotorua, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [1960s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2904

Description: Transparencies showing a family camping trip to White Rock on the South Wairarapa Coast. Images include views of the road and the countryside on the way. Photographed circa early 1960s by Cyril Beavis. Also includes transparencies showing views of Waihi, Lake Taupō. These include exterior and interior views of the historic St Werenfried's Roman Catholic Church, and the Priest. Photographed by Cyril Beavis circa 1969. Transparencies showing White Rock are also at PA12-2902 and PA12-2903. Transparencies showing Waihi are continued at PA12-2905. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in April 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-88.

Date: 1861 - 1880 - 1862

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-002/003

Description: Shows a party of explorers camped by a rough wooden shelter in the left foreground, with a campfire burning. One figure approaches the group carrying a load of firewood on his back. In the centre distance Mt Ngauruhoe erupts. The left side shows the puia or hot springs on Mt Tongariro, and at the right is Mt Ruapehu with "snow in patches". A note beside Mt Ruapehu says "Southern peak is called Para te tai taonga - Shield from the South wind". Puke Onaki is also marked. Other Titles - Frontispiece Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [2-3 A version of this image was reproduced by Fergusson & Mitchell, Dunedin. See E-296-q-012-1, "View of the great central volcanic chain from the Ruamata Plains at the entrance of the Whanganui Bush". Another version was used as a frontispiece for Crawford's "Recollections of travel in New Zealand and Australia ...", London, Trubner, 1880. Another version of this image, in watercolour, is at A-229-046. Notes attached to the description of that images state: "The trip was in January / February 1862 and the Europeans depicted are Crawford himself and Samuel Deighton, and possibly "poor Biggs who was afterwards killed at Poverty Bay" (p. 134), since Crawford mentions that he joined Crawford and Deighton for part of the journey and there are three Europeans shown". The original sketch was made around 1861-1862. However, the word "frontispeice" [sic] indicates that the idea may have already existed for this image being a frontispiece in Crawford's "Recollections of travel in New Zealand and Australia ...", London, Trubner, 1880. Therefore this copy may have been made around 1880. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on double spread, 145 x 470 mm

Date: ca 1890s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 13

Reference: PAColl-6407-94

Description: Group of men relaxing round their bush camp, a tent and a washhouse in the background. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: [Circa 1920s]

From: McCormack, Leonora, 1925-: Albums and photographic prints of the Harding family

Reference: PA1-q-152

Description: Photographs associated with the Harding family of Hawke's Bay. None of the people are identified. Most of the images are holiday scenes, showing camping, fishing, and touring around various sites in the North Island. Many show areas around the Waikato River, the thermal regions around Rotorua, and Lake Waikaremoana. Inscriptions: Album page - Menzies, PO Box 235, Hastings, H.B. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photographs in a dark green `Minute book' with red spine; 33.5 x 21.0 cm

Date: [190-?]

From: Babbage, Charles Whitmore, -1923 :Negatives of family scenes and Wanganui views

Reference: 1/1-001134-G

Description: Camp site scene on the coast at Kawhia. Young man, and boy, unidentified, probably members of the Babbage family. Photograph taken 190-? by Charles Whitmore Babbage. Other - Note on back of file print reads: "see 796 Childrens games for Babbage Child 1140 1/1 " Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative