Travel in New Zealand

Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides has two sequences which are not in chronological order. (Information from his diary).

Slides nos. 433-443 show areas of the North Island around the Dargaville and Whangarei area, including Maungatapere peak, the Wairua Gorge and Wairua Falls, the Whangaroa volcanic ridge and tree ferns, McLeod Bay and pampas grass, Whangarei from Memorial Hill, the Whangarei Falls, and Whangarei Heads. These were taken sometime between April and May 1959.

Slides nos. 444-456 show parts of the South Island including Invercargill; Bluff, a lighthouse near Bluff; the Invermay Agricultural Centre on the Taieri Plains; Dunedin, Otago Harbour, Larnach Castle, and early steam engines on display in Dunedin; section of road between Dunedin and Christchurch taken from a bus. These were taken circa February 16-21 1959.

Slides on this sheet are numbered 433-456 with no gaps.

Arrangement: None of this sheet of slides were taken 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: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm