Places

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: [Between 1940 and 1942]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-564

Description: Scenic views of Cambridge, the lake at Hamilton, Puketeraki, Piha, and the farm `Rozel' near Ohaupo, interspersed with portraits of family and friends, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. One photograph shows Rhoda McWhannell's parents (William Duncan Ross McCurdie and Olga Mariquita McCurdie) reading congratulatory messages on their Golden Wedding Anniversary. This album gives the date as 1942, but a previous album gives it as 1941. Rex Hamilton, Bill Hewett and Frederick McWhannell are photographed in military uniform. Photographs of people identified only by surname are Mrs Bowler, Dr Gower and Dr Gribben. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with pale green and cream marbled cover, pale green spine and cord; 20.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: 27 January 1969

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

Reference: EP/1969/0441-F

Description: David Thomson, Minister of Defence, reviews troops at Waiouru air field. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 27 January 1969. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1939-1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-158

Description: Photographs of 1 New Zealand A Tank Battalion in training at Ohakune and Waiouru between 1939 and 1945 (A F V School). Includes Governor General's inspection Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Transfers: Photographs were transferred to NZ Army HQ on 26 February 1943 (see photocopy of envelope housed with collection)..

Date: [Between 1941 and 1946]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-563

Description: Family photographs, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell, many taken at `Rozel', the farm she and her husband Frederick McWhannell owned near Ohaupo. A large number of images show Audrey Hopkins (later Geddes) at Rozel, with animals including ducks, hens and dogs, swimming in the water tank, and with Brian Geddes (later her husband). Four images show a military tank "T27626", with "Galatos" on the turret, at an unidentified location. A group portrait of officers at Waiouru in 1941, and several photographs of Frederick McWhannell, Frank Bethwaite and Neva Morrison wearing military uniform in the early 1940s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with navy blue cover, entitled `Photographs'; 20 x 23 cm

Date: 1939 - 1945

From: Jackson, E R C (Lieutenant), 1907- :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War II

By: Jackson, Edward Robert Campbell, 1907-1973

Reference: PA1-o-572

Description: Album compiled by Lieutenant E R C Jackson (New Plymouth), which includes views of Waiouru, departure of the 2NZEF and voyage; Athens, Egypt and Italy. No names are given for any portraits or group portraits. Towards the end of the album there is a series of propaganda posters and leaflets; a copy of a Safe Conduct leaflet; and the British military identity document in the name of Edward Robert Campbell Jackson. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black leather-bound volume with coloured decorative Egyptian motifs; 20.5 x 29.0 cm

Date: [1960s, 1970s]

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

Reference: PA12-3031

Description: Photographs of the work and life of Regimental Sergeant Major Cocker, Waiouru, taken by Cyril Beavis in the 1960s Also includes images of a store front with a sign that reads "BIG TEX", date unknown. Also includes images of people taking photographs at Raumati Beach taken circa 1970s. Also includes images of Fred Turnovsky taken March 1973, standing before a large landscape photograph or painting. Also includes people at Paremata, Porirua, including people kayaking and standing on the beach, taken circa 1960s. Images of Regimental Sergeant Major Cocker are also at Library reference PA12-3107 to 3108. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "PH. BIG TEX | Fred Turnovsky | March 1973", "Fesliers Raumati good", R S M Cocker, Waiuru [Waiouru]" and "Paramata [Paremata] people". Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in September 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-22.

Date: 1947-1951

By: Croad, Ernest Norman, 1927-2002; Croad, Nancy, active 1963-2003

Reference: PAColl-7853

Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of construction of Pukaki and Tekapo hydro stations, ca 1948 Scenes in Mangakino and Tokoroa, 1947 Stockton and Rotowaro coal mines, ca 1947 Waiouru military camp, ca 1951 Otago Harbour, 1947 Ernest Norman Croad joined the Public Works Department in 1945 as a drafting cadet. He later trained as a surveyor and qualified as a civil engineer, working on roading projects for the Ministry of Works. He worked on civil engineering projects at Tokoroa, Tekapo, Pukaki, and the housing division at Waiouru. Quantity: 95 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs Nancy Croad, Auckland, 2003

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: New Zealand. National Film Unit; Marriott, (Lieutenant), active 1943

Reference: PA1-q-292

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album contains photographs on pages 1-54 (Pages 55-149 are empty). Activities include training in building of fascines and revetments for protecting trench walls; barbed wire "concertina"; excavation of command posts (part of a defensive trench system); the use of a 2" mortar; anti-tank rifle instruction; instruction in identifying enemy weapons including grenades and land mines and use of an electric mine detector. The cookery wing in action in the open air; artillery school of instruction; signallers establishing communication & erecting a telegraph pole; use of a 25-pounder; bayonet practice; medical training including rescue of wounded, use of an improvised stretcher, improvised raft for a river crossing carrying the stretcher, transfer to an ambulance, and finally a view of an actual open-air operation. The arrival of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, shown with New Zealand dignitaries (p 18). Men and women who have returned on furlough parading through Wellington on their way to a luncheon given in their honour by the RSA (p 19-21, 38-40); the arrival of repatriated Prisoners of War being greeted by friends and family in Wellington (p 33-36) A huge crowd celebrating the victory over the Italians at Liberty Corner, on the intersection of Hunter Street, Featherston Street and Lambton Quay (Friday 3rd September 1943) Ceremonies at an undentified marae including Maori dance, haka, poi dances and speeches by military officers. Pages 28-30 show the visit of a British Military Mission to the Forest & Jungle Warfare Wing of the Army School of Instruction, with demonstrations of jungle training. Women are shown with views of the Women's Land Service (Land Army), and also as Post & Telegraph drivers collecting huge bags of mail from a ship. Infantry students at the Army School, Trentham are shown in a river crossing exercise near Foxton, building rafts big enough to carry people, vehicles and weaponry. Launching a fuel barge built at the Wellington Patent Company's shipyards at Evans Bay, where the ceremony was performed by Managing Director Mr Jamieson. Pages 49-53 show photographs of Polish refugee children arriving and settling into the refugee camp at Pahiatua. Pages 53 and 54 show the official opening of a new Model Kindergarten in Hospital Road, Newtown (Saturday 18th November, 1943), opened by the Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Also present were the Labour MP for Wellington South, Robert Mckeen and his wife Jessie Mckeen, Mrs J A Doctor (President of the Free Kindergarten Association), and Dr Clarence Beeby (Director of Education). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 438-598 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 28 February 1970

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

Reference: EP/1970/0877-F

Description: New Zealand's Army Combat Brigade on review at Waiouru. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 28 February 1970. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1908

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-204

Description: Shows Mount Tongariro with clouds behind it and trees in the foreground. View is probably from the Eastern side of Mount Tongariro. The mountain has purple and yellow light on it suggesting early morning or evening Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 220 x 275 mm

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-10849

Description: National Army Museum, Waiouru. Quantity: 6 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-10850

Description: National Army Museum, Waiouru. Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. 2 colour original negative(s).

Date: 7 April 1943

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/101-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd, showing Waiouru Military Camp, Ruapehu District, Manawatu-Whanganui Region, inset provides an oblique view of the camp Scale: 8 chains to the inch Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - WN.23 B64 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size)

Date: 1936-1941

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1794

Description: Don Peat's own album aquired when he was 15 years old. Contents include - Group of schoolboys and a De Haviland aircraft at Wigram in 1936. The Merivale boy scouts, Christchurch, 1937. Portrait of St Mary's Church, St Albans, Christchurch, 1937. Governor General, Lord Galway at presentation of a new guiden (flag) to the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, Hagley Park, 1937. Wellington Railway Station. World War One field gun. Flying boat on Wellington harbour. Nazi flag on the last German ship to come to Wellington before the Second World War, ca 1939. Ocean liner `Strathmore,' at Wellington wharves. Portrait of Bob Semple. Don Peat with friends and in military uniform, 1939-1940. Soldiers, Second World War, in Wellington. Views of the Nurses Home, Wellington Hospital. Don Peat and his parents, Whanganui 1940. Soldiers in training, Trentham, 1940. Views of the ship `Doric Star' sunk in 1940. Soldiers in training at Waiouru, 1941. This includes a group of photographs recording a comic mock battle enacted by soldiers. Soldiers on leave in Christchurch, May 1941. Hand coloured images of Maori men posing as `old time' warriors, 1939. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

Reference: PA1-o-1521

Description: Photographs of artillery training at Waiouru, 1940; practice amphibious landings in Vanuatu; and NZ troops at Guadalcanal, Vella Lavella and Nissan Island, taken & collected by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 190 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009 Transfers: Transfers - Collection as a whole received by Photographic Archive other material transferred to Ephemera from here. - To Ephemera Collection - Souvenir Programme - The Kiwi Concert Party (Pacific) presents 'Pacific Roundabout' 1944 (Eph-A-VARIETY-1944-02).

Date: 18 June 1965

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

Reference: EP/1965/2099-F

Description: Soldiers of the 161st Battery lined up at Waiouru being addressed by the Governor General, Sir Bernard Fergusson, prior to leaving for Vietnam. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 18th of June 1965. The 161st Battery served in Vietnam from June 1965 to May 1975. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1939-1941

From: Marriott, Forrest Aitken, 1904-1960 :Photographs relating to World War Two

Reference: PAColl-8288

Description: Photographs taken and collected by journalist and photographer Forrest Aitken Marriott. Included are troops parading in Wellington in 1940; the 1st and 3rd echelons leaving Wellington on troopships; troops training at locations around the Wellington coast; troops training and parading at Trentham Militaty Camp and Waiouru Military Camp; photographs of the Dominion Monarch, the Rangitira, and the Strathaird. Quantity: 46 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: circa 1880, 1934 - 1955

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Wade, Keith Reginald, 1920-1992; Dunstan, Harold J, active 1939-1947

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-029

Description: Scenic photographs of the North Island, 1934 to 1955. Includes Manawatu - Wanganui, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Taranaki, Northland and Auckland Regions. Also includes photographs of the first school in Palmerston North and the Bank of Australasia Corner, Palmerston North, circa 1880. Photographers include W. Hall Raine, Keith R. Wade, Harold J. Dunstan, J M S Beale, A W Powell, and aerial photographs by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1962 - 1963

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-737

Description: Includes pencil sketches, with colour notes of trees; Raetihi May 20th 1962; pond with "blackish green water"; Taihape; Waiouru 24/8/62 (views of Ruapehu); [Ruapehu from] Ohakune end Feb 1963; foerground all warm dead grass About March 8th 1963; [Ruapehu] from Tom's verandah new snow March 14th 1963. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Croxley Li-Flat artist's sketch block, spiralbound with 11 leaves, each 190 x 275 mm.