Heretaunga Boating Club : Records

Records of the Heretaunga Boating Club, from 1906; includes minutes, correspondence, membership records, racing results and regatta records, financial records, other papers and plans of the clubhouse

Also includes folders of minutes and correspondence of the Centennial Committee and Book sub-committee, drafts of the Cennential Book and research notes.

Source of title - Supplied

The club, known as the Petone Boating Club, was formed in 1906, but soon after changed its name to the present one. Clubrooms situated on Petone Esplanade.

Quantity: 9 box(es). 25 volume(s). 35 folder(s). 5.14 Linear Metres.

Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter

Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Heretaunga Boating Club, Mar 2001, Jun 2003, Mar 2006

Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives; material transferred to the Ephemera Collection, Photographic Archive, the Cartographic Collection and the Drawings and Prints Collection. - To Photographic Archive - One black and white photograph of view from railway lines looking south east across Petone, showing the fellmongery buildings in the middle distance and Petone wharf on the far right. One black and white photograph of a boat cabin. Two colour and six black and white photographs of World Sailing Speed Record Events held at Petone 1978-1980. One black and white photograph of the HBC's 50th Jubilee at Petone. One album containing colour photographs of the construction of the new HBC clubhouse 1982-1985. - To Cartographic Collection - One Marine Department map of Port Nicholson, Lambton Harbour and Evans Bay - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Architectural plans for clubhouse; also plan for the `Heretaunga Flyer', designed for attempt at the world speed sailing record - To Ephemera Collection - Tickets, forms, certificates, programmes and a bag from the Centennial celebrations.