Places

Date: 1921, [1930-1950]

From: North, Esther Mary, 1892-1968 : Papers

Reference: MSX-6015-6016

Description: Address book kept by North. Also diary for 1921 kept by her while teaching at Pahiatua District High School and in London and Kentish Town at the beginning of her grant of one of the University Passages to Europe. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (two pieces in case folder).

Date: 1875-1893

By: Dierks, Anna Margareta Dorothea Henrietta, 1856-1932

Reference: MS-Papers-6083

Description: The diary is a detailed account of Anna Dierks' life as an elder daughter in a household of fourteen children, and then as the wife of a missionary in Upper Moutere, Waitotara, near Wanganui, and Woodville. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Covering letter from the Ev.-luth. Missionswerk in Niedersachsen, Hermannsburg, Germany Accompanying material - Excerpts from Evangelisch-lutherische Hermannsburger Freikirche. Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1987

By: Stevenson, Margaret Forbes, 1920-

Reference: MS-Papers-5415

Description: Stevenson wrote her account in 1987 and begins by describing her family and their situation from when she was born in Pahiatua in 1920 until the 1950s when her marriage ended. She describes the daily life and routines of the family, the various moves they made - to Wellsford, Hamilton, back to Pahiatua, Ongarue, Makokomiko and Wellington - the work her father did which included selling books for the Seventh-Day Adventists and being a farm manager - and of life at the various schools she and her sisters attended. She describes working in Wellington at the Sanitarium Health Food vegetarian cafe, her marriage to Bob Woods, various events in their family life and their subsequent separation when she began working at the Odeon picture theatre in Auckland. She also discusses the role of religion in a person's upbringing. Stevenson and her husband narrowly missed being on the Tangiwai train and she elaborates on this. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (48 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs M F Stevenson, Pt Chevalier, Auckland, November 1995 Line drawings of the mill at Ongarue where the family lived and the area after a fire, of a camp oven and a diagram of their living quarters; photographs of the family and houses they had lived in and of the Pohangina Post Office and Store

Date: [ca 31 Aug 1981]

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

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1981/2965-F

Description: Women clothing workers from Rixen Manufacturing Company, Levin, being read messages of support for their sit-in protest regarding redundancy pay. All images include Clothing Workers' Federation secretary Mr Frank Thorn. Three images also include mechanic, Norman MacFarlane, and Clothing Workers' Federation president, Mrs Joyce Hawe. Photographs taken circa 31 August 1981 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Source of descriptive information - Evening Post caption from 31 August 1981, attached to back of EP/1981/2965/13a. Historical note from Global Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter #53 from http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0402/S00092.htm accessed July 2009. Workers occupied Rixen Manufacturing after they were given one weeks notice of closure with no redundancy payment. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) strip with 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1884-1889

By: Francois, Bridget Madge Isabel, 1902-1992

Reference: MS-Papers-10490

Description: Includes index to names and places mentioned provided by Marsha Donaldson. Original has been attributed to Hannah Seymour; diary transcribed and edited by B Ristori describes voyage on Zealandia, 1884, and life in Wanganui to 1889. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1911

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918; Daniell, Charles Edward, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-188

Description: Views of the Mangatarera Stream and Mount Holdsworth opens a record of a climb to the summit of Holdsworth. The party consists of six women and about five men. There are views of the stream and the swing bridge leading to the Holdsworth track; several shots of the Mountain House with the climbing party arranged along the veranda, and Mr McGregor's party who had arrived on horseback to fix the water tank; the climbing party grouped in the bush on the way up the mountain and on the open alpine ridges; a surveyors tent in the alpine tussock; the party eating beside the Holdsworth Trig; views of the Tararua Ranges from the summit of Mount Holdsworth. Interspersed among the main image groups are photographs of a trip to Rotorua. This involved a group of people in two motor cars. There are images of the Hamurana Stream and Springs at Rotorua, and of children diving for pennies at Whakarewarewa. Views of mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, the Mangaehuehu Stream, the Crater Lake and the crater on Ngauruhoe, and mountaineers crossing the ice field on Ruapehu and climbing Ngauruhoe. There is a view of Matterhorn Peak the name of which was changed to Girdlestone Peak in 1922. Two images of a surveyors' camp in the Waimarino Bush. The Tern Arch and Little Hawke's Crag on the Buller Gorge road. A view of Lake Tarawerea from the top of Mount Tarawera. The final photograph is a view along the beach to Pencarrow Head, Wellington. Pasted inside the front cover is a cutting from `The Weekly News', Wednesday, December 26, 1945, entitled `New Zealand's highest memorial' by JWG, describing the renaming in 1922, of Matterhorn Peak (Tongariro National Park) to Girdlestone Peak in honour of Hubert Earle Girdlestone after he was killed in action in August 1918. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - To Mr and Mrs Daniell with kindest recollections from a very old friend, Hugh Girdlestone, March 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brownish green cover, 25 x 20 cm Provenance: The album had been presented to Daniell in March 1911 by Hubert Girdlestone.

Date: ca1945-ca1955

By: Pinnell, Karen, active 2002

Reference: PA1-f-240

Description: Album of scenic photographs taken on motoring tours through the North Island during the 1940s and 1950s. It includes a series of images showing United States Servicemen touring in New Zealand, probably during World War 2. Places visited include the Chateau Tongariro, Ohinemutu, Rotorua and Huka Lodge. Mount Ruapehu is shown in eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: From the collection of the Draper and Brenton families.

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: 1997

From: Battersby, Dorothy, fl 1940-1997 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5936

Description: Two histories of branches of the donor's family, John Martin and his wife Elizabeth who lived in Westport, and Marion Punch (nee Martin) who farmed at Raetihi with her husband, Joseph Pierce Punch. Battersby describes the family background of her subjects and provides detail of work, family and activities. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). Laser photographs of John and Elizabeth Martin and Marion Punch

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: 10 August 1985

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

Reference: EP/1985/3580-F

Description: Arthur Tonan gutting sheep at the Longburn Freezing Works, Longburn, Manawatu. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin 10 August 1985. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacitate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1996

By: Open Learning Centre; Bayly, Janet, 1955-

Reference: Eph-E-WOMEN-1996-01

Description: Poster promoting a photography exhibition shows numerous small inset photographs of women, and in central position, words contributed by Nga Rongonui. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 650 x 905 mm.

Date: [ca 1894-1900]

By: Hanna, John Robert, 1850-1915

Reference: PAColl-10201

Description: Three black and white prints; no known link between prints. Taken by unknown photographers, probably between 1894 and 1900. Includes two class portraits of a girls school taken in a garden. One print captioned 'Lower Glenside School, October 1896', the other print embossed 'Hanna Photo', probably taken by John Robert Hanna of Auckland. Adult woman with lace cap features in both photographs. Also includes a wide view overlooking Taihape township surrounded by felled trees, bush and unsealed roads. Accompanying information - Lower Glenside School print was accompanied by a post-it-note 'Tawa mgt' (not retained). A girls day and boarding school called 'Lower Glenside School' operated from Upper Symonds Street, Auckland, circa 1890s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) (two prints mounted on card). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Provenance: Purchased by Ms Hoy from a Mary Potter Hospice ship, Thorndon, Wellington, April 2014. Nothing further known.

Date: 15 April 2000

From: Riverboat stories from the Whanganui River oral history project

By: Teki, Polly, 1908-2002

Reference: OHInt-0490-09

Description: Polly Teki talks about her birth in 1908, attending Turakina Maori Girls' College in 1924 and being taken from school to live in Ranana by her father, who died in 1932 from pneumonic influenza. Speaks of her large family, doing a man's job and hard farm work. Mentions the riverboat Whakapai, its bar and items sold on board, the passengers. Refers to land being 'dry' - alcohol free. Talks of deckhands, Temo Ponga, Captains Anderson and Robinson, the riverboat accidents when Bob Gray and Captain Anderson died. Describes Pipiriki House, its dinners, concerts and why it burnt down. Mentions Ranana Post Office, the telephone exchange and mail transported by riverboat. Mentions the catholic nuns' work. Topics discussed include the opening of the road and the cessation of the boat service with some unemployment as a result. Refers to Pipiriki and Gurneys Store, the Waimarie restoration, the voyages up the length of the river and timtables. Recalls bus drivers. Talks of Maori spoken in Ranana and her use of the language. Mentions Mrs. Jack Reweti, the Governor-General, James K. Baxter's Jerusalem commune and Julie Felix's visit. Mentions the transportation of cream and milk by river in 1930's, talks of 27 farmers in the area. Describes milking by hand and later machine with a diesel engine not electricity in 1932. Describes Sir Apirana Ngata's development scheme. Refers to church attendance, social life, dances and concerts with the nuns. Recalls Mr. Marumaru's advice to her about the house and farm. Interviewer(s) - David Charteris Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008401 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1. 1.30 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2617.

Date: 22 Jun 1991

From: Women writing for theatre in New Zealand in the 1980s

By: Farrell, Fiona Grace, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-0617/03

Description: Discusses writing as a child. Recalls her schooling in Oamaru, university in Dunedin and then in Toronto. Describes being overseas for eight years after marrying. Mentions directing plays in Canada, the influence of some Canadian playwrights, `hippy theatre' and a theatre renaissance in Canada as a result of government funding. Comments on the beginnings of feminism there. Recalls a job with a publisher to help redress the gender imbalance in literature. Describes juggling a job, a baby and a thesis. Describes her return to New Zealand in 1976 and becoming a drama teacher. Recalls working with Stanley Roche, author of `The red and the gold', and writing her play `Waihi 1912' based on it. Discusses Amy Bock and the play she wrote based on her life. Comments on the incidence of women posing as men to get more out of their lives. Mentions other plays she has written including `Bonds', `Passengers' and `Airwaves'. Talks about writing poetry, a radio script and television comedy for 'Away laughing'. Describes being made redundant and her realisation that nearly all the staff put off were female part-timers caring for children. Comments on this. Discusses the style of theatre she enjoys. Mentions Peter Schaffer. Comments on `Foreskin's lament'. Discusses the lack of production of plays written by women in Palmerston North. Interviewer(s) - Colleen Cleary Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-3432.

Date: 6 May 1999 - 06 May 1999

By: Martin, Maureen Ellen Patricia, 1923-1999

Reference: OHColl-0458/1

Description: Maureen Martin was born in Hawera in 1923. Gives details of her Irish background. Describes how her father worked for the Public Works Department on dams and tunnels throughout the North Island. Talks about the Mangahao Dam Public Works Camp where Maureen lived in early childhood. Notes that her father was working as a tunneller on the Tawa Deviation. Discusses his interest in politics and the effect on him of World War I. Focuses on her childhood in the Khandallah Public Works Camp from 1928 to 1940. Includes detailed information about their home, family, school, games, camp and social life. Comments on attitudes towards the camp. Discusses employment after leaving school, particularly her work at the Prestige Hosiery Factory in Wellington. Interviewer(s) - Pip Desmond Accompanying material - Transcript of an interview with Maureen Martin by her grandson Liam Martin about the 1951 watersiders strike Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007157 - OHC-007159 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1763. Photos of Maureen Martin from 1926 to 1943; photos of the Mangahao Dam public Works Camp and the Khandallah Public Works Camp in the 1920s

Date: [ca 1940s-1940s], [ca 1968-ca 1974]

Reference: PAColl-10084

Description: Photographs of the staff of the Government Printing Office in Palmerston North at work, taken between circa 1968 and circa 1974 by an unidentified photographer. The collection includes group portraits of staff individual staff members at work, and scenes of staff socialising. The photographs depict a range of machinery and printing equipment used by the staff in their work. One group photograph identifies the following individuals: E James, R Edmonds, T Lynch, J Patrick, P Edwards, R Hinks, R Bell, D Bell, B Martin, A Johnson, Mr. McMurray, M Myers, D Roberts, G Collis, F Collis, C Williamson, W Hale, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Mamad, and C Priest. Some individuals from the group photograph appear in other images. All other staff photographs are unidentified. The collection also includes one photograph of College Street, Palmerston North, primary school girls and boys on their tricycles, taken circa 1940s-1950s by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Dated circa 1968 to circa 1974 because there are calendars on the walls for those dates. Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1949-1962

From: Warner, Eric, 1933-2010 :Photographs, particularly of woodchopping

Reference: PA1-q-1144

Description: Amateur athletes and amateur athletic sports, with Eric Warner in many of the events. Includes - Wellington Technical College sports, 1949. W C (N I) Centre Championships at Whanganui, 17 February 1962. All of the other athletic events recorded, took place at Otorohanga, Raetihi, and Waimate, from 1954 to 1960. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1958-1962

From: Warner, Eric, 1933-2010 :Photographs, particularly of woodchopping

Reference: PA1-q-1145

Description: Amateur athletes, amateur athletic sports, and visiting professionals Includes - People at the Raetihi Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club's annual prize-giving ceremony, ca 1958. International athletes sponsored by Agfa, training at Raetihi on 25 January 1962. Those in the photographs are Albie Thomas (Australia) and Bruce Tulloh (Britain). W C (N I) Centre Championships at Whanganui, 17 February 1962. Rangataua Easter Sports, 1962. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1972

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7144

Description: Portraits of Noeline. Chateau Tongariro and Tongariro National Park in winter, 1972. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies.