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: 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: 1900, 1923 - 1933, 1938, 1947

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

By: Wells, Robert Ernest, 1905-2006

Reference: PAColl-0001-2-2

Description: Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

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: [ca 1900-1911]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-044

Description: Contains a 6-page notebook of songs and chants with a note at the beginning by S P Smith saying `sent to me by G H Davies, Karore April, 1911'. In Maori the notebook includes notes on Kaioraora (cursing songs) by Topeora, and a waiata `E pa to hau ke Te Wairau e'. Inside the back cover is a copy of a letter in Maori from S P Smith to Whatahoro, New Plymouth 29 August 1911. Several pages relating to legend, waiata and other matters in several hands. Legends include Mataora, Tumatauenga and Kongomaraeroa; Tura and Whiro; Tamatea and the moa; Mataoho; Maui; Tane and others. Some of this material may be from a Ngati Porou source; One section is headed `Waiata a Te Whatu', and there are various waiata among the text which Davies claims have been sung before the Maori Land Court in the Hawkes Bay area. There is also an explanation in Maori and English of the expression `Ariki tapairu' signed by Rawiri Te Rangi Rangikauri. A covering letter from Davies to S P Smith, dated 18 Jul 1902, offering them to the Polynesian Society for publication. There is also an undated note from Elsdon Best to Smith forwarding a letter from Tamahau (Mahupuku?), sent by Davies for publication. An unsigned paper in Maori is probably the letter referred to. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1958-1966

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0699-45

Description: Reports, papers and notes (unpublished) by Elder on forest cover, ecology in the Ahimanawa, Ruahine, Tararua and Kaweka Ranges, Kapiti Island, Maharahara, Tikitiki Bush, problems of the South Australian saltbush country, Pohatuhaha, Waipawa and other parts. Includes ecological report on the Southern Ruahine Range with details on introduced animals (1958). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1864 - 1898

By: Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: MapColl-Collection-Cowan

Description: Collection contains a published map of Kapiti, 1898, with pencil annotations of pa sites; manuscript sketch map of Bay of Islands, Hokianga and Whangarei, undated; manuscript map showing the disposition of British troops at Orakau Pa, Waikato, 1864; manuscript map of the battle at Taurangaika Pa in 1868 drawn in 1927 and draft sketches of pa sites, redoubts and battlegrounds drawn for James Cowan. 'The New Zealand wars: a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period'. (Wellington: Govt. printer, 1922-1923) Quantity: 31 map(s). Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives, Cowan, James - Papers - MS-Papers-0039.

Date: [Between 1897 and 1901]

From: St John's Church :Photographs of church buildings, personalities and activities

By: Davis, T, active 1890s; Howitt, Adam, 1871-1954; Jupp, George Henry (Rev), 1878-1955; Lowe, E C, active 1900s; Thornton, C J, active 1910; Tustin, William Henry, 1880-1970

Reference: PA1-o-451

Description: Photographs relating to St John's Presbyterian Church in Wellington. They include views of St Paul's Presbyterian Church in Christchurch in 1898 and in 1901 when there were combined encampments held in Christchurch, involving Young Men's Bible Classes of the two churches. Many of the photographers are identified (names listed above). One photograph shows Dr John Elmslie of St Paul's Church, standing at the pulpit which is decorated with flowers, with the word "Mizpah" picked out in white. Several images show Dixon Street houses above St John's Church (p 09), and "fallen houses" (p 25) Another group of images show triumphal arches celebrating the arrival in Wellington of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall in 1901. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album (lacks cover); 27 x 23 cm

Date: 1989

By: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022

Reference: PA1-f-241

Description: A camping holiday made by Jennifer McLeod and her Dutch Composer friend, Peter Schat. The record goes from Pukerua Bay through the central North Island, the Desert Road, Lake Taupo to an unidentified thermal area. The rest of the photographs are from the east coast which included the Bay of Plenty. The final sequence is a trip made to Picton. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1989 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Transfers: Transfer from further papers of Jennifer Helen McLeod (MS-Group-0144).

Date: August 1986

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6610

Description: Evening over Wellington Harbour. View of the Kapiti Coast from the Paekakariki Hill Road. View of Kapiti Island. Viewing rohododendrons at Cross Hills Garden, Kimbolton. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard mounts.

Date: Early 1900s to 1931

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

Reference: PA1-q-002

Description: Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua (Vol. 1, images 1-146). Album includes maps, diagrams & sketches, and black & white photographs. Views include Paremata Redoubt, Lake Horowhenua, carved pātaka at Papaitonga Pā. Views of Komokorau, the burial place of Mua-Upoko chiefs including Chief Mahuera Paki Tanguru-o-te-rangi; Lake Wai-tawa and Te Moutere (formerly a fortified island pā). Place names & historic features of Kapiti Island, including relics of whaling days at Wharekohu Bay showing ruins of stone house, stone walls and a stone-embanked stream channel, burial caves, Waiorua Valley showing the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pā, and Motungārara Island where there was a subsidiary pā of Te Rauparaha. Ōtaki, Rangiātea Church (1925); carved whare at Puke-Karaka; Ōtaki Jubilee Pole; and old meeting house Uawhaki at Waikawa. The site of the old Māori flour-mill on the Waitarere Stream at Poroutawhao, which was built in 1853 or 1854 under the direction of a French priest. Several images of performers competing in the haka and poi competitions at Shannon, 2 January 1928. Images of Pākehā pioneers of Horowhenua (Hector McDonald and his wife Agnes (nee Carmont)), and a photograph of Rora Hakaraia, daughter of Mua-Upoko chief Tanguru, and sister of Te Rangihiwinui (also known as Taitoko, and later as Te Keepa or Major Kemp). The photograph of Rora Hakaraia was taken from a painting in the possession of Rod A. McDonald of Levin. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s).