Places

Date: 1949

From: Wellington Regional Planning Authority: Maps from records

By: Cuttriss, Edward Aldred, 1911-1993; Wellington Regional Planning Authority

Reference: MapColl-832.4791gbbd/[ca.1949]/Acc.51450

Description: Map showing Lots from the Normandale settlement to Hill Road, Belmont. One area north of Hill Road (part of lot 313, CT 87/210) is marked for proposed subdivision. The final cadastral plan was deposited in September 1949 (DP 14632), surveyor E A Cuttriss. Verso: Location of Cottle Estate Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Black and white negative copy, scale 1:7 920, 45.1 x 48.3 cm.

Date: 1946 - 1950

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-90-1202/1213

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and sections, kitchen details, decking joists, details of fireplace, and details of reinforced concrete water storage tank. Quantity: 12 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper and waxed linen paper, sizes varying up to 590 x 760 mm.

Date: 7 Sep 2009 - 07 Sep 2009

From: From memory oral history project

By: Beams, Peter Derek, 1929-2010

Reference: OHInt-0981-05

Description: Interview with Peter Beams, born in Clapham, London in 1929. Talks about his family background, early life and schooling in Glasgow and weekends at Loch Lomond. Recalls his father built an Anderson air raid shelter in their back garden. Comments on being evacuated to New Zealand with his two older brothers in 1940, and not bringing any personal items with them. Refers to sailing on the SS Ruahine and suffering from sea sickness. Recalls the ship being visited in Wellington by prime minister Peter Fraser. Talks about being taken with his brothers to a magnificant house (Tudor House) in Park Road, Belmont to stay with George and Ethel Seers. Mentions the history of the house which was owned by General Motors at the time. Describes their accomodation and mentions the cook Betty Verity and parlour maid Jean Hyde. Talks about food, eating mostly in the servants' quarters, tennis, billiards, entertainment and discipline. Comments on spending a lot of time walking the hills, walking the dog and playing war games with friends. Refers to being taught to wait on table. Reflects that he and his brothers were fairly self-sufficient because they were not used to closeness in their family. Refers to attending Hutt Central School and later Nelson College, and talks about life there as a boarder. Mentions that he was not really concerned with news of the war but kept up with it. Recalls hearing of Pearl Harbour, submarine sightings around New Zealand, and the Americans having ammunition dumps in the Western Hutt Hills. Recalls the 1942 earthquake. Comments that he was required to return to Britain at the end of the war but having "nowhere to go home for". Refers to sailing with one brother on the SS Rangitata via the Suez Canal and being met by their father who was a stranger to them. Comments that their parents were separated and he met his mother later. Refers to working on a farm until he was called up for National Service in 1947. Comments on serving in Egypt and Malaya, being demobbed in Sydney and returning to New Zealand in 1950 after recovering from malaria. Talks about going back to live with the Seers whom he had kept in contact with. Discusses working for Wright Stephenson & Co (stock and station agents) and his subsequent career including working at General Motors and finally starting his own sign company. Mentions marrying his wife Mona Cadwallader in 1953 and building their house. Refers to meeting his mother and brother Tony in England in 1985, and also meeting his father again once they located him. Comments on a memoir he was writing about his own experiences. Reflects being grateful for the experiences and opportunities he has had that would not otherwise have been available to him, but regrets the lack of a family life when young. Accompanying material - Partial memoir by Peter Beams written for his children, covering his life up to the 1970s (OHDL-001383) Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001380 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s) - Tiff file. 1 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 9 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) - Tiff files. 1 Electronic document(s) - word document (partial memoir). 1 interview(s). 3.47 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7242. Search dates: 1929 - 1939 - 2009 - 1945

Date: 1925, 1938-1945

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-050

Description: Includes: Cambridge Drill Hall, 1938; Blenheim Drill Hall, 1938; Addington magazine; army transportation at Tauherenikau, 1943; aerial views of Samabula `A' & `B' camps, near Suva, Fiji, 1945; aerial view of Tamavua Military Hospital, Fiji; aerial view of NZ Camp, Fiji; Force Headquarters, Fiji; Wigram (Series 23/21) showing aerial views of camp area with Christchurch in background, aerodrome, bomb drop and magazine, 1941; aerial view of Belmont magazine area (Wellington); Whangaparaoa (series 32/10) - aerial and other photographs of camp site, battery position, interior of magazine, gun emplacements and pits, tunnels and battery workshop under construction, 1942; schedule of claims, Working Railways Department, Christchurch, 1925. Includes some photocopied prints Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940 - 2009

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-B-1940/2009

Description: Includes: Baradene College of the Sacred Heart. Centennial music concert, 22 August 2009. Programme Belmont School presents "Reach for the rainbow". 2004. Programme Bethlehem School. Official opening of new classroom block by Right Hon. Walter Nash. 21 November 1959. Programme Blackball School 75th jubilee celebrations 27-29 March 1970. Programme Black's Point School eighty-fifth jubilee 1876-1961. 29 September - 1 October 1961. Souvenir programme Brandon Intermediate School. Brandon 77. "If you sell yourself to the Devil"; rock opera. Music by Chris Norton, Composer in Schools for 1977. Programme Branston Intermediate School. official opening by Minister of Education Honourable B E Talboys. 1 May 1971. Programme Brooklyn School. Souvenir jubilee programme 1883-1949 Brooklyn School centennial parade 1983. Cyclostyled flier Brooklyn School cushion concert 1991. Programme Brooklyn School. School handbook and directory 1999 Burwood School jubilee 1872-1947. Celebrations October 1947. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1938-1943

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-4161-01-059

Description: Aerial and other photographs of the following: Pukekohe Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 16/21); Port Chalmers Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 16/20); Papaparaumu aerodrome and surrounding area showing Kapiti Road and Kapiti Island and beach (Series 16/13); view looking south from Waikanae to Paraparaumu (Series 16/2); Papakura Military Camp and area, 1939, 1940 & 1943 (Series 16/11); Hokowhitu Camp, Palmerston North, 1938, 1942 (Series 16/9); Godley Head showing camp, gun emplacements, proposed R.D.F. site and general views, 1943 (Series 2/2); Chamberlain Park, Auckland showing Hy.A.A. site, 1942 (Series 3/2); Belmont, Auckland showing Hy.A.A. site (Series 2/2); Bastion Point showing gun emplacement, turret and director tower, tunnel entrance to engine room, cable laying and view of Tamaki Drive (Series 2/8); North Head showing fixed defence and submarine nets - aerial view shows Devonport and Cheltenham Beach, etc (Series 14/5); Napier showing Drill Hall and Artillery Barracks, G.R. Defence Office, 1938, 1942 (Series 14/1); Greymouth showing gun emplacement site, R.C. hall to be used as accommodation for coastal defence battery, 1942-1943, and Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 7/3) Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Apr 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, Apr 1949 Scene at the civic reception held in Dixon Park, Greymouth to honour the visit of HMNZS Kaniere, one of the new frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Cromwell racecourse; action photos from Ngaruawahia's annual regatta (includes young Maori boy eating watermelon); Maori deputation visiting Parliament to discuss the question of liquor licence in the King Country (includes portrait of 78 year old Mrs A Huirama); exhibition held in Christchurch of Japanese wood-block colour prints compiled by K R Moshelm, a former director of Army Education and Welfare Service in Japan; Bailey bridge on Lewis Pass Road, near Glen Wye Station; photo of family of Gilbert Edwards, a Dunedin claimant to the fortune of a Welsh stonemason who immigrated to New York and died in 1789 (story in Free Lance, 20 Apr 1949). Makara Radio Station (series of photos including A F Smith, officer in charge of Makara Radio Station); Star Rugby Club, New Plymouth 60th jubilee celebrations and members of the 1919-1939 decades in the grand parade held at Rugby Park; limestone caves recently discovered at Lake Te Anau (Cave of Swirling Waters). Final section of the main highway between Auckland and Te Kuiti under construction (Mayor of Te Kuiti, K W Law watching final load of metal chips being laid); composting of Masterton's refuse; construction of the road at Belmont Gully and Haywards (Hutt Valley); repair of fault in the Auckland-Suva cable by Government steamer Matai; Union Steam Company's vessel Waitemata en route to Vancouver rescuing converted Fairmile launch Mahurangi in Pacific Ocean near Rarotonga. All Black captain Fred Allen, with former All Black Trevor Berghan and Mrs Berghan in fancy dress costume; Chinese crew's arrival in Auckland to take over the Union Steam Ship Company's vessel Kaikorai at Port Chalmers (sold to Hwah Lee Steam Ship Company of Shanghai) Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1938-1943

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-4161-01-055

Description: Aerial photographs of the following: Mt Victoria showing Basin Reserve, Evans Bay and Patent Slip, 1942 (Series 13/9); Opau Battery showing gun emplacements, camp and Wellington Harbour in background, 1942 (Series 15/2); Orongorongo showing R.D.F Station, Riddiford's homestead, Baring Head lighthouse and Sinclair Head (Series 15/5); Titahi Bay showing camp and Porirua Inlet in background (Series 20/6); Baring Head showing lighthouse and signal station (Series 2/1); Hutt Park U.S.M.C. Army Camp No 4, 1943; Hutt Valley, 1942-1943 (Series 8/3); Mahanga Bay showing wharf and stores (Series 13/13); Miramar showing view of oil tanks (Series 13/15); Palmer Head showing radar position, construction of gun emplacements, and general view looking towards Rongotai and Lyall Bay (Series 16/22); Belmont magazine showing excavated sites, 1943 (Series 2/3); Brooklyn showing Fitchett's farm and general view of A.A. site (Series 2/6); Judgeford showing Judgeford, Haywards & Moonshine camps with Hutt Valley in background of some views, 1943 (Series 10/1 & 8/4)); Kaikoura Drill Hill, 1938 (Series 11/4); Taieri showing RNZAF station and general views of the Taieri Plains, 1944 (Series 20/11); Hastings Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 8/5); Hamilton Defence Office showing drill hall, stores, barracks, 1938 (Series 8/6); Castor Bay showing battery position, 1943 (Series 3/1); Kaipara Flats and railway station, 1943 (Series 11/1). Quantity: 121 b&w original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Includes index note book.