IMAGE
Surveyors in the New Zealand backblocks
- Date
- 1907-1909
- Reference
- PA1-q-915
- Description
Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north.
There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers.
Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs
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Copyright
UnknownVisitors to a survey camp, Ruatiti Block - Photographed by Hubert Girdlestone
Date: 1907-1909
From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing
Reference: PA1-q-915-10-1
Description: Three men seated and standing around a campfire backed by a fence of split timbers. This group is surrounded by native forest. Photographed by Hubert Girdlestone between 1907 and 1909. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Visitors to Ruatiti Block The camp was a Department of Lands and Survey camp in the area around Ruatiti in hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10 x 7.4 cm, mounted in album page