Places

Date: [Between 1938 and 1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-061

Description: Album of publicity photographs, and photographs of posters and advertisements taken by unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. Many of the images in this album were taken for a series of articles written by Oliver Neal Gillespie between January 1939 and June 1940, published in the New Zealand Railways Magazine. The series was entitled "Buy New Zealand goods and build New Zealand. New Zealand Industries Series". These contribute the largest group of images in the album, covering a wide range of industries. They include men's and women's clothing manufacturers; electrical engineering companies such as Pallo Engineering (petrol pumps), National Engineering (Neeco electric ovens), Standard Engineering Company; tobacco factories; potteries; Nugget shoe polish factory; brushware factories; and companies associated with the manufacture of food products (eg Watties canneries, Edmonds Baking Powder, Griffins and Bycrofts biscuit makers, and Whittome & Stevenson sauce and pickle makers. There are other sequences of images, including newly built state housing in Lower Hutt, with some houses still under construction beside the Hutt River, a streetscape, and a children's playground (p 7-8); a large crowd joining in a send-off of R.S.A. men to Australia in April 1938; a train laden with boxes of oranges from Rarotonga, the "Special orange train from Auckland"; and photographs of charts showing the progress of the New Zealand Government Railways, with railways workshops staff organisation charts (for Otahuhu, Addington, Hutt & Hillside Workshops (p 28-29). On p 35 there are views of a new hangar at Rongotai Aerodrome, under construction, then views of the completed exterior and the interior with a row of Blackburn B-5 Baffin bi-planes. Several images show collection of Railway sports trophies (including cups for their cricket teams), and two views of New Zealand Railways staff member Neil Edwards, a tennis champion who represented New Zealand in Britain in 1939. Pages 39-41 show the construction of a large dredge on the West Coast; p 57 show a burst watermain on Waterloo Quary, wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, green spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 7'; 41 x 61 cm

Date: 29 December 1987

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

Reference: EP/1987/7098-F

Description: General Motors worker, Papa Koloi, hosing down a car body with white spirit, one of the messiest jobs in the Petone plant. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths 29 December 1987. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacitate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1939 - 1941

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-038-001/027

Description: Floor plans, sections and elevations, with details of bins, partitions of secretary's office, stairway, spandrils, entrance, toilets. Quantity: 27 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 590 x 780 mm.

Date: 1952

By: Gray Young, Morton & Calder (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-1362

Description: Details of ground and first floor plan Two pages of specifications included Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper

Date: 1947

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

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1797/1798

Description: Includes floor plans, sections, locality and site plans for a brick works, with plastic brickmaking plant conveyor belt, hoppers, crushing room, clay storage, brick machines, driers and loading bays. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 700 x 880 mm.

Date: 1971

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-66533-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, taken for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1971 by K E Niven and Co. commercial photographers of Wellington Other - Envelope contains: 526/71, KBR-Shots at dunlop factory (U.H.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 7 cm

Date: 9 March 1994

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

Reference: EP/1994/0681-F

Description: Folders Jenny sargent (left) and Xhou Jie Xia, working at the end of the production line at L R Wishart's shirt factory in Levin. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney 9 March 1994. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1953

By: Gray Young, Morton & Calder (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-1357

Description: Details of ground floor plan Two pages of specifications included Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper

Date: 1940 - 1943

By: Masterton Chamber of Commerce

Reference: Eph-A-LOCAL-Masterton-1940-01

Description: A pamphlet recommending that manufacturers consider extending their businesses into the Wairarapa. It gives brief statistics of the area: area, population, stock statistics, chief town, the promised tunnel, aerodrome, sunshine; a page listing the schools in the district and their rolls, a list of sporting facilities, industries operating and industries wanted. There were 2,000 pupils in Masterton schools as an oncoming labour force. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset on folded pamphlet, 195 x 152 mm.

Date: 1967

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. December 1967-May 1968

Reference: E-473-f-006

Description: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 272 x 360 mm

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0185

Description: Photograph of the Gear Meat Company, Petone looking south to Somes Island. Photographer unidentified; date possibly 1890s or early 1900s. A closer view of image at PAColl-D-0162 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 320 x 570 mm with mount

Date: 1971

From: K E Niven and Co :Commercial negatives

Reference: 35mm-66518-F

Description: Dunlop tyre factory at Upper Hutt, taken for Kenyon, Brand and Riggs Ltd in 1971 by K E Niven and Co. commercial photographers of Wellington. Shows the Bag-o-matic press with Ron Whewell on the left. Other - Envelope contains: 526/71, KBR-Shots at dunlop factory (U.H.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with two images. Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 7 cm

Date: 1982-1984

By: Jobs Research Trust

Reference: PAColl-5918

Description: Slides record New Zealand co-operative enterprises flourishing in the early 1980s. Many are co-operative farms, gardens, craft factories, and shops. Other slides relate to or have been created by CELT (Co-operative Enterprise and Loan Trust). There is also a sequence on the Salvation Army Work Scheme in Taranaki. There are three information slide sequences, one called "Good Work-an introduction to New Zealand Worker Cooperatives" created by CELT, and "Renewable energy for today and tomorrow" from the Centre for Alternative Technology. The third is entitled "The New Echonomic Adgenda" and dates from 1984. Arrangement: Slides at PA12-1600 to 1685 Quantity: 1720 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1941

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Maps

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd; Seaton, Sladden & Pavitt (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/1941/Acc.37842

Description: Cadastral survey map of the subdivision of part 7 of Section 3, Lots 1, 2 and 3, on Jackson Street, Petone, that border the Gear Meat Company and GN Raymond NZ Ltd. Shows acreage. Other Titles - Plan of subdivision Part subdivision 7, of Section 3, Hutt District Shows mark of Gear Meat Company seal. Written on map: '12366'. Across Jackson Street, Native Land NL 2086 is indicated. Received by Land Transfer Office. Inscriptions: Signed by Chief surveyor, Mayor and Town Clerk, District Land Engineer, and directors and secretary of the Gear Meat Company, and a registered surveyor. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 40.3 x 39 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Gear Meat Company Ltd. Further records - 81-295.

Date: 1973 - 1974

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Graham Naish & Associates (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-004-151/162

Description: Includes floor plans, section, elevations, details. Quantity: 12 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo plans, sizes varying from 420 x 600 mm, to 600 x 800 mm.

Date: 1957

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Lee & Inkster (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0811-03-04

Description: Factory of Plastalon NZ Ltd, in Masterton, built in 1957 (architects: Lee & Inkster). A 1935 Ford V8 car (left) and a Morris Eight car are visible in the foreground. Image taken circa 1957 by an unidentified photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 98 x 77 mm

Date: 1954

By: Gray Young, Morton & Calder (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-1363

Description: Details of bracings Two pages of specifications included Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper

Date: 1958

By: Haughton, Son & Mair (Firm); Bulleyment Fortune Architects (Firm)

Reference: Plans-97-011-171/172

Description: Shows elevations and floor plans. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Rubber stamp]: Marlborough Milk Treatment Co., Ltd.; Recto - bottom right - [Rubber stamp]: T. H. Barnes & Co., Ltd. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo, 665 x 975 mm.

Date: 1949

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

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1282/1283

Description: Includes a ground floor plan and first floor plan, of a meat processing factory, showing staff lunch rooms, cool rooms, cutting tables, cookers, dryer, drying racks, store rooms, smoke house, sausage machines and meat mincers. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, 530 x 680 mm.

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-448-045/064

Description: Political cartoons. Psychiatric care denied to those in need. Jim Bolger teeters on the edge of losing his position as Prime Minister. Jim Bolger offers his head on a plate to the new National Party leader, Jenny Shipley. Helen Clark congratulates Jenny Shipley for being NZ's first woman Prime Minister. Jenny Shipley lays down how she wishes to conduct business within her caucus. Winston Peters prostrates himself before the new Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley. NZ public dispair over the Black Caps' performance. Jenny Shipley is set to devour coalition partner, Winston Peters during their coalition talks. Max Bradford calls for submissions on the government's proposals allowing people to work Christmas Day for cash. Winston Peters is pressured by his party, NZ First, to continue in coalition with National under the new leadership of Jenny Shipley. NZ First / National Party coalition government is recemented but there's trouble ahead. Obituary to the tourists murdered by Islamic extremists in Egypt. Jim Bolger is overwhelmed by complimentary cards following his fall from the National Party leadership. Workers comment on the compulsory pay rise MPs get. Labour Party Conference participants behave as if they have become the government when they are still in opposition. White power advocates call for one law for all with some exceptions for themselves. Jim Bolger advises foreign leaders of the first signs of a coup, unsolicited phone calls pledging loyalty. The tell-tale signs of smoking in women. The pros and cons of the Hamilton East Telecom Mobile Phone Tower. Jenny Shipley is seen to have a level demeanour. Quantity: 20 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.