Places

Date: 1914

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

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1909 to 1918

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-008

Description: Photographs supplementary to the 3 MS foolscap volumes of Annals of the Tararua Range (Vol 1, figures 1-146). Images show geology, topography, physiography and flora of the Tararua Ranges. Views of the Tararua Ranges, with peaks named (figs 1-6); ascent of Mt Waiopehu (3588 ft.), 22 Jan 1909 (figs 8-10); 1st crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 13-19 Feb 1909, finishing on a campsite on the farmland of Alfred Deal at Waingawa, also a view of Mr Deal's house, and views of Masterton, including the Masterton Post Office and public gardens (figs 11-45); visit to the High Fall on the Poruriri Ridge near Tokomaru, 30 Oct 1910 (figs 46-49); ascent of Mt Tawirikohukohu (3455 ft) via the Ohau Rover, 18 Dec 1910 (figs 50-52); 3rd ascent of Mt Waiopehu, 3-6 Jan 1911 (Figs 73-76); across the Tararua Range via Palmerston North-Pahiatua Road, 22-23 Jan 1911 (figs 73-76); visit to the Ohau-Mangahao divide via the southern branch of the Ohau River, 12 Feb 1911 (figs 77-83); 2nd crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 9-17 Feb 1911 (figs 84-128); ascent of Te Paki trig station on the Tararua foothils east of Shannon, 10 Dec 1916 (figs 129-132); topography & physiography of the valley of the Makahika, tributary of the Ohau River, 6 Jan 1918 (figs 133-134); 2nd ascent of Te Paki & topography of the Upper Tokomaru Valley, 28 Apr 1918 (figs 135-136); 1st visit to the No.1 gorge on the Mangahao River, 29 Feb 1919 (figs 137-138); topography & physiography of the Waireka & Wainui valleys, 13 Apr 1919 (figs 139-142); physiography of the Poruriri Ridge & Mangaharakeke Falls, on the Tararua western foothills near Tokomaru, 24 Aug 1919 (figs 143-146).

Date: 1818-1968

By: Wilson, Geoffry Burns, 1904-1977

Reference: MS-Papers-1003

Description: Papers include correspondence concerning history and exploration of the Tararua Ranges, correspondence of tramping clubs in the areas, files on huts and wildlife in the Tararuas and printed material (mainly newspaper cuttings) There are also notes on the history of Wilson's (NZ), Portland Cement Ltd and family history. Further papers relating to the Federated Mountain Clubs, Tararua Tramping Club and John Pascoe; sample files are Nomenclature - Tararua District; Meetings - AGMs of other clubs; Pascoe - Tararua tramping; FMC newsletters; Huts and tracks - Waerenga; Easter 1933 - Hill & Co search; Accidents; Search parties (various names, including Philip Temple); and other topics Source of title - Supplied title Wilson was long-standing member of Tararua Tramping Club. Quantity: 58 folder(s). 0.58 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 4 December 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1868

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-061

Description: A bend in the Ruamahanga River, with flax bushes at the river's edge, beech trees to the right, and forest to the left. Smoke rising from a farmhouse amongst bush in the distance, and the Tararua Range in the background. The original for a chromolithograph 'Opaki Plain, 1875' reproduced in Barraud's 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive' (London, 1877). opp. p. 4. The chromolithograph has the addition of two Maori in a canoe on the river and cows on the plain in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 260 x 380 mm

Date: ca1910-ca1929

By: Jansen, Elwyn George, 1904-1979; Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s

Reference: PAColl-6174

Description: Photographs relating to the Jensen family, especially to E G (Paddy) Jensen. There is also a portrait of the Presbyterian medical missionary, Dr Owen Lamont Eaton, who was shot in China in 1939. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1920s-1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-223

Description: Photographs collected for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1920s-1950s. Some are unidentified. Includes: Wreckage of a small aircraft in the Tararua Range (5 photos taken by D F Jones, Tararua Tramping Club), undated; Invercargill wedding group - Sadie Reid Pollock married Lawrence Graham Smillie (with handwritten description), undated; Miller-Luke wedding (bride with her bridesmaid Nancy Luke and flower girl, Sophie van Asch), taken by Lovell-Smith, Hastings, undated; W G Perry (negative of sailor, presumed dead), undated; Miss Cross of Masterton, and young friend Nigel Hawke of New Plymouth, Jun 1949; Spragg (studio portrait of 58 year old soldier wearing military decorations), undated. Model of Australian cruiser H M A S Sydney, part of a naval display for War Saving Day in Martin Place, Sydney, 1940s; floral ship at Tauranga (and handwritten description); Mr & Mrs T L H Gibson, 50th wedding anniversary, Sep 1949 (C E Clarke, photographer, Waimate). Typed list of unidentified photographs; typed list of Winston Churchill related photographs A Jackson of Wellington College and his Guide V Williams on top of Mount Cook, 31 Jan 1929; W Errington Keville (General manager of Shaw Savill & Albion) with wife and daughter, 1949; dismasted yacht Astral being rescued during Wellington to Lyttelton Yacht Race, 1951; officers of Boys Brigade companies at training course held at Trentham, 1950s?; NZ Model Aero Club Dominion Championship at Christchurch, 1952; aerial view of Addington Racetrack; three grandstands at unidentified racetrack showing racegoers. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s) (also mss and ts material). 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1954-1966

From: Elder, Norman Lascelles, 1896-1974 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0699-44

Description: Reports, papers and notes (unpublished) by Elder on forest cover, ecology in the Ruahine, Tararua and Kaweka Ranges. Includes list of contents. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1970 - 1989

Reference: MapColl-832.45gmbh/[197-?]/Acc.40295

Description: Map showing the location of Middle King bivouac, below South King and Middle King, and above Mitre Flats, on the Wairarapa side of Tararua Ranges. Includes instructions for approaching the bivouac from Middle King peak and from below from Baldy Creek-South Mitre Stream. The Mitre Flats hut, Waingawa River and a new footbridge are marked, as are tracks (marked and unmarked), spurs, creeks, the bivouac forest, and Mt Baldy. The four-man bivouac and new Mitre Flats footbridge were build in early 1970 (Jagger, Peter: Tramping in the Tararuas. Wellington, N.Z. : P. Jagger, 2006. p. 124-126). Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo on paper, scale indeterminable, 27.5 x 35.3 cm.

Date: [19--]

From: Iorns, Bennett, 1883-1977 : Wairarapa research papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2510-1/34

Description: Handwritten and typed drafts, updated. Includes articles entitled Kuripuni, Midland Hotel, Tararua Ranges Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1925

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Diaries

Reference: Micro-MS-0600-04

Description: Chronological account of Adkin's farming activities and his interests in local Human History and Natural History as well as Ethnology. Includes information on Kapiti Island (ie. Waiorua Bay, Motungangara, and Wharekohu where Te Rauparaha was said to have signed the Treaty). Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-052

Description: View from a high point looking down to a flat valley among hills, with several farm buildings, a river and tracks John Varnham was manager of Bowlands Station and a partner in the estate with C E & W N Luxford, Ben Ling & W C Mace. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 215 mm

Date: 1939

From: Wilson, Geoffry Burns, 1904-1977 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1003-06

Description: Contains a newspaper article, and a hand-written copy of this article, with regard to a hiking trip in search of the lake Hapua-Korari in the Tararua Ranges Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1960-1964

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Diaries

Reference: Micro-MS-0600-12

Description: Notes on Adkin's original Maori oral history research which focuses on tribal histories, settlements, and historic sites. Adkin's interviewed Paeroa Wineera and her son Tutuira Wineera (1963) who gave him information on Ngati Toa whakapapa as well as the original Maori place-names for Taupo Pa (ie. Turi-Karewa) and other landmarks around Takapuwahia Pa. Includes notes on Adkin's archeological expeditions in the Mana-Kapiti Coast, Horowhenua, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, and Wairarapa-Palliser Bay districts. Also comprises notes on the Whitireia and Mana Island archeological sites. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 3-4 Apr 1915, 3 Aug 1916

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918

Reference: MS-Group-0363

Description: Account of the traverse of the Tararua Range from Woodside (Wairarapa) to Otaki by H E Girdleston and party; final page is missing. Includes cross section plan of the traverse, compiled by T M Drummond. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, ms Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mr J Bryers, 1995

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph was reproduced from the original "[View of Wellington. 1861]" held at ATL G-670. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011-c

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

By: Neill, Wally, active 1936-1962

Reference: PAColl-5121

Description: Many, but not all, photographs taken by W Neill. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-021141 to 021195. Quantity: 54 b&w original negative(s). Transfers: 10x8 prints from some of the negs are at PAColl-0825..

Date: [Circa 1929-1939]

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

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966; Springboks (Rugby team)

Reference: PA1-o-112

Description: Album of images collected and partly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock. Images include clipping from newspapers and magazines, and postcards (chiefly of Akaroa, Wellington, Sydney and Perth). The photographs include family photographs, mountaineering trips, scenery in various parts of New Zealand, interior views of the Union Bank of Australia (Wellington Branch) where Gerald Rainsford worked from 1936-1939, and several views of the first Springbok test at Athletic Park in 1937. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32.5 cm

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: [ca 1910-1950s]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries

Reference: MSO-Papers-0261-10/18B

Description: Contents: 1942 annotated wall calendar; map showing place-names and occupation sites of Eastern Palliser Bay; diagrams of Maori artifacts found in Lake Horowhenua and from shore near Te Hou Pa; sketch of N-W part of Lake Horowhenua showing position of Mangaroa Pa etc; artifacts from Mangaroa Pa mound and adjacent swamps; sketch plan of former Kirikiri Kainga; map of North Island showing sites giving archeological evidence of the progressive migration of the ancient Wiataha from northern most New Zealand to Cook Strait; sketch of triangular adze from Titahi Bay, Porirua; map showing tribal and hapu areas of Horowhenua; map of Lake Horowhenua and environs showing Maori place names and sites; plan of Pipiriki Pa, Lake Horowhenua; sketch plan of Waipata Island Pa, Lake Horowhenua; map of Mangaroa Pa mound and environs; plan etc of Kikopiri whare-whakairo at Muhurioa West, near Ohau; Lake Papaitonga, Otaki showing place-names and sites; diagrams of Moawhango skull; tracing of Rimutaka Range and S-W hill system & Tararua Range showing major features and tramping data; maps, diagrams and plans of Hawkes Bay and Manawatu Gorge; diagrams, plans, sections of various Wellington and Wairarapa fault lines; map of lower course of Waianakaura River, N-E Otago; various geological maps of Tararua Ranges (including panorama from Te Paki, near Shannon); printed map showing survey districts of Otago Land District, and of Southland Land District; plan of subdivision of Te Rauawa Station at Ohau, 1920; sale notice for Kawiu Estate, Levin, Oct 1919 (owned by Lindsay McDonald; plan of Heatherlea Estate for auction sale, Sep 1918 (estate of late J R McDonald of Levin); map of New Zealand showing railways open for traffic, 1902; map showing Napier Harbour Board proposed inner harbour extension and reclamation areas, 1919; several maps showing physical configuration of Horowhenua in past times, 1910