Places

Date: 1863 (1956, 1976, 1981)

By: Woodhouse, Jonas Eastwood, 1842-1897; Woodhouse, F R (Mr), active 1956-1981

Reference: MS-Group-2357

Description: Original log book of an account of Jonas Eastwood Woodhouse of his journey from London, England to Southland, New Zealand on board the 'New Great Britain' in 1863. Also a typed transcript of the same. Woodhouse describes life on board the ship in detail, including the weather, food, entertainment, equator crossing celebrations, and deaths of other passengers. He also describes sailing past Solander and Steward [Stewart?] Islands and arriving in Southland where they were met by a pilot ship and assessed for quarantine. He gives his impressions of the bush, houses, gardens, animals, and pig hunting that he could see from the ship before they landed. Also includes a list of passengers on the ship, organised by county and country, and the words to 'Song of the New Great Britain' composed by Mr Robert Wotton - another passenger on the ship. Also includes letters addressed to Mr F R Woodhouse (a great grandson of Woodhouse and previous owner of the book) in relation to the log book (letters dated 1956, 1976, and 1981). Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Typescripts Provenance: Previously owned by Mr F R Woodhouse, a great grandson of Jonas Eastwood Woodhouse. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Modern First Edition Ltd, England, Jun 2014

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: 1870

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

Reference: A-120-013

Description: Upper view: Jamestown and Gravel cove, Lake McKerrow, shows a single small house and a tent amidst thick bush at the edge of the lake. Hills in the background and a small steamer and a rowboat at the water's edge. Lower view: Steamer Charles Edwards snagged in Hollyford River, Feb, 1870, signed lower left, J. Welch, 1870, shows the half-sunk paddle steamer in the river, hills beyond. In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours with scratching out 140 x 226 mm and 139 x 226 mm glued to a single sheet.

Date: 1910 - 1930

By: Hazledine, Percival Charles, 1892-1954

Reference: PAColl-3048

Description: Photographs of Invercargill and Southland taken 1910a-1930s by P C Hazledine, portrait and wedding photographer of Invercargill. Includes: two images of nuns of the Good Shepherd; four of the unveiling of the war memorial for Limehills, Barkley, Boggyburn and Otapiri; the North Island Country football team; and the church at Mossburn. Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/1-022076 to 022090, 22123 to 22139, 22472 to 22535, 1/2-186459 to 186490, and 1/4-051320 to 051334 Quantity: 100 b&w original negative(s) Approximate figure. Exact number unknown.

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: B-002-013

Description: View of a mountain beyond part of Lake Te Anau Inscriptions: Signed: S.H.M. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash sketch, 228 x 339 mm

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

By: Pirie, David James, active 1982-2005

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-45

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by David James Pirie; one page extract from `100 years at Morton Mains'; certificates of title; photographs of William Pirie taken about 1920 and in 1942; letter from James Pirie of Invercargill. Original owner of the property was William Pirie who acquired 232 acres in 1900. In 1914 a further 212 acres were purchased from Colin Gerrard. In 2005 the land was farmed by his son James and grandson, David Pirie and was awarded the NZ Century Farm & Station award to mark 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, photograph

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: E-297-002

Description: Four men and a boy seated in a rowboat by a rocky shore, a bush-clad hill behind Photograph numbered 66 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph 142 x 195 mm glued to album page 177 x 225 mm

Date: ca 1930s-1990

From: New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8028-04

Description: Photographs of Gisborne Activity Centre, a prize giving at Gisborne Boys' High School, children making a soundtrack for a silent film at Greymouth Main School, South Westland Area School, students and teachers at Havelock North High School, pupils outside Otago School, pupils of Oratia School at Hoani Waititi Marae, exterior of Hogben House, teachers at Hokio Beach Special School, Howick School, Hutt Valley High School teachers, students and teachers at Hutt Valley Memorial Technical College, inservice training, students at Jerusalem High School, preschoolers playing, Kahurangi Publishing, Kamo High School students camping at Mimiwhangata, Karamea Area School, Kingswell High School, Lake Rotoiti, kohanga reo at Tongariro High School, laundry at Napier Girls' High School, students in libraries, scenes at Lynfield College, carver at work, Maori students, martial arts, pupils and sheep at Maungakahia Area School, paraplegic teacher at Menzies College, and children swimming at Mercury Bay. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 9 colour original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) (proof sheets).

Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

Reference: PA1-q-032

Description: Album contains coloured photographs with views of New Zealand, and some unlabelled family photographs, taken by Dr Ken Birrell, circa 1950s. Images also include three of Oregon and the Oregon State University. New Zealand views are concentrated mainly in the Wellington area including the Wairarapa, Milford Sound and the Dunedin area. Note handwritten at top right-hand corner of the cover reads "Aerial. Qtn-Milford 1957 & Chch-Qtn. (Air & bus)" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue covered album, with "Photographs" lettered in gold, 255 x 380 mm

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039420-G

Description: Totara trees near Riverton, Southland. There is one man amongst the trees. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1920 - 1930

By: Southland times (Newspaper); Southland League

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-Southland-1920s-01

Description: Includes text and pictures covering aspects of Southland's tourist attractions. Covers "Paradise of sport", "Rail & Motor tours", "Beautiful Southern lakes", "The World's most famous walk". Other Titles - Issued by the Southland League, Invercargill, New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Issued by the N.Z. Railways Publicity Branch. Dated from the appearance of similar picture in \"New Zealand railways magazine, October 1932, page 3. Second copy, received 1999, is annotated as having been obtained at the Dunedin Exhibition in 1924. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on both sides of sheet 590 x 890 mm.

Date: 1970

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-067

Description: Shows a man labelled State Hydro, attempting to fill up the depleted Lake Manapouri with his garden hose. Comalco is erecting a factory nearby. Demonstrators with "Save Manapouri" and "Save our scenic beauty" placards stand on the hose to stop the flow. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 228 x 323 mm on sheet 290 x 395 mm.

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: 1868-1869

By: Green, George, active 1860

Reference: qMS-0881

Description: Annotated copy of petition to Legislative Council covering land on Stewart Island that the South Island claimed to have been purchased between 1830 and 1840. Letters from Green to W B D Mantell and Andrew Buchanan; copies of letters to Green from Alfred Domett and Land Claims Commission. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (31 cm, ¼ red morocco, pink boards) Transfers: Transferred from qPAM, 22 April 1976.

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039421-G

Description: Totara trees near Riverton, Southland. There is one man amongst the trees. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 2006

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MSI-Papers-8640

Description: Six photographs of the farm taken in Jan 1960; Tuturau District map showing crown grants (including Alexander Cockburn), 1864; cadastral map of area south of Gore, showing land owned by Moseby family on Boundary Road (highlighted). Other - Material which accompanies MS-Papers-8640-56 Original owner of the farm at 135 Boundary Road, Mataura (Tuturau District) was Alexander Cockburn from Scotland who purchased 240 acres in 1874. In 2007 the property was owned by his great-grandson Ken Moseby and his wife Sue. In 2006 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter and photographs (photocopies)

Reference: PAColl-6338

Description: Postcards of King Street, Temuka; Invercargill Railway Station; the water tower and pumping station in Invercargill; Dee Street, Invercargill; Invercargill Hospital; the botanical gardens in Invercargill; Dunedin from Bell Hill, passengers on the Waikare just before the shipwreck; an elevated view of Clyde; the shelter on Stop Island built by the passengers of the Waikare after the shipwreck; Waratah and Mt Bischoff, Tasmania; Magnet Mine ore shed, Tasmania; fountain in Princes Square, Launceston, Tasmania; and a river near Latrobe, Tasmania. Photographer for some of the images was Muir & Moodie. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 b&w copy negative(s) of Dunedin from Bell Hill. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) postcard.

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-13

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Scott Donald Blair McKenzie; original farm deed, 1869; maps The original owner of Greenbush was Kenneth George McKenzie of Kildonan, Little Loch Broom, Western Highlands, Scotland, who acquired 50 acres at Fortrose, Southland. In 2005 the land at 218 Fortrose-Otara Road (Block IX Toes Toes District Section 3) was farmed by his great-great-grandson Scott McKenzie and his wife Christine. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript (some photocopies)

From: [Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Lake Manapouri and surrounding district. n.d.]

Reference: A-201-048

Description: Native beech forest (nothofagus) with Lake Manapouri in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 176 x 255 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-064-2

Description: Three coastal views on the coast south of Milford Sound, showing George Sound - To South of George Sound, Looking Glass Bay and a view further south of George Sound showing Two Thumb Bay and Mt Tanilba. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - George Sound; Recto - beneath image - To South of George Sound - Looking Glass Bay; Recto - beneath image - Further South of George Sound - Two Thumb Bay, Tanilba Mt Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (triple image). Physical Description: Pencil 222 x 153 mm