Surf casting

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 27 Sep 1994

Reference: MS-Papers-9516

Description: Folder comprises a typescript letter from Jim Mikoz, Secretary of the Wellington Surfcasting and Angling Club Inc to the Wellington Regional Council. The correspondence relates to the proposed Regional Coast Plan of 1994. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Transfers: From Book Collections - PR-09-0487.

Date: 1967

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to fish and fish species in New Zealand and the Pacific]

By: Ninety Mile Beach Surfcasting Club

Reference: Eph-A-FISH-1967-01

Description: Pamphlet shows an illustration of a woman in a bikini reeling in a large fish labelled 500 [pounds], with a map with Ninety Mile Beach and Kaitaia marked, in the background. The verso lists the prizes and categories, and includes a tear-off entry form. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet, 220 x 285 mm folded to 220 x 95 mm.

Date: Oct 1954

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s; Ransfield, T, active 1950s

Reference: 1/2-020590-F

Description: Shoreline of Lake Onoke, South Wairarapa, with fisherman surf casting at the outlet, photographed October 1954 for the National Publicity Studios by W Walker or T Ransfield. Cape Palliser is in the distance. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1964

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0740-F

Description: Scenes of men fishing at the mouth of the Wairoa River, taken in 1964 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1964

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0739-F

Description: Scenes at the end of the Ringatu New Year hui, and fishing off the beach at the Wairoa River outlet, taken in 1964 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Two scenes show a woman asleep on packed up bedding after the hui, and one frame of people walking past a shop in Wairoa. The remainder of images show men fishing at the Wairoa River mouth. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1964

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0741-F

Description: Scenes of men fishing at the mouth of the Wairoa River, taken in 1964 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images also include scenes of women and children sitting on a sand bank nearby. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: [Between 1918 and 1971]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

By: Bartlett & Andrew Ltd

Reference: PA1-o-565

Description: Collection of photographs, many of which were taken by Rhoda McWhannell. A number of photographs taken in 1976 were published in the Auckland Herald, one published in the Dominion (Wellington), probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell who had a strong interest in photography for many years. Scenes published in the newspapers include one of a team of six Clydesdale horses pulling a plough; one of black swans with their cygnets at the lake in Hamilton; one of a group of four children on a swing, and a young boy on a single swing; and one photograph entited "Happy days", with a Maori workman lying in in the sun in his wheelbarrow during `smoko' or tea-break, with a thermette, a billy and a mug beside him, reading a paper. Photographs of animals at the zoo, lions with cubs, koala bears and two hippopotamuses. Several images of royalty, with the Queen Mother at Hamilton, on her visit to New Zealand in 1958, and Princess Alexandra, visiting in 1971. Several photographs show brides and wedding parties, ranging from Dorothy Shires and Marjorie Nicolls, both married in 1920, to Joan and John McWhannell, married in 1953. A number of farming images, including those published in the Herald, include one of drovers' dogs "after completing four weeks trek with a large mob of cattle" in the Auckland area, mustering in the Craigieburn Range (Southern Alps), and new-born lambs (one a group of four black lambs, and one a white lamb). Scenes of Napier, particularly the sculpture of Pania of the Reef. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey mock lizard cover, entitled `Photographs'; 22 x 27 cm