Travel in New Zealand

Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides were taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets. (Information from his diary).

The first image shows a typical mountain sheep station scene; the next seven images show aspects of the Winchmore Irrigation Research Station, including irrigation canals, a feeder canal, a "dam", treated and untreated fence posts, sheep in a grazing plot, and the inside of one of the laboratories. From there Williams travelled to Ashburton with views from the bus, coming into town; the Ashburton Domain showing the Florence Nightingale Memorial, a sequoia tree, cabbage trees, and large beds of zinnias. Further views from the bus were taken between Ashburton and Nelson. In the Nelson area there are views of the Nelson Cathedral, a huge pumpkin patch, tobacco growing and hop vines.

Slides on this sheet are numbered 457 to 480, with one gap where no. 476 was removed for lectures on New Zealand.

Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slide (no. 476) showing the Early Settlers' Monument in Nelson, which he took as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences.

Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm