Travel in New Zealand

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

This sheet contains images taken between Lower Hutt, Masterton and Castle Point in the Wairarapa.

Included are interior and exterior views of St James' Anglican Church in Lower Hutt; a view of the pass over the Rimutakas; St Matthew's Church and several street scenes in Masterton; Jessie Cooper's home; the open air Masterton Swimming Pool; views of the Wairarapa Plains with a sheep station; the Ruamahanga River; Mt Holdsworth Reserve looking up to the Tararua Range; views of Castle Point, including one of shells embedded in rock, the NZ native ice plant "disphyma australe"; and a woman selling fruit and vegetables at a roadside stall on the Carterton Road.

Slides on this sheet are numbered 529-532, with gaps for 531, 534, 539-540 and 553.

Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 531, 534, 539-540, 553). These showed the Rimutaka Pass, a Masterton street scene, the Wairarapa Plains with the Ruamahunga River and sheep, and Cabbage Tree Grove on Palliser Road, which he took as part of his 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: 20 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm