Travel in New Zealand

Date
Circa December 1958 to April 1959
Reference
PA12-8796
Description

Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand between 1958 and 1959. This sheet of slides shows hills at Holmridge farm; volcanic ridge at Tokatoka; sawmill and the Tokatoka volcanic rock in the distance; Dargaville township, April 26 Anzac Day procession with band rotunda visible, an old pier on the Wairoa River at Dargaville, cattle sales; a pile of wood blocks at a sawmill; Woodhill showing Peter Hildreth's farm country; sheep on the road beyond Helensville; Kaipara River at Helensville; scenes relating to the flax industry at Waihue showing cabbage trees in a swamp, views of the Northern Wairoa Flax Co. mill showing the buildings, flax in swampland, the flax mill, washed flax fibres, and the manager of the mill holding flax fibres.

Slides on this sheet are numbered 604-627.

Arrangement: None of this particular sheet of slides were removed to Mr Williams' representative collection on New Zealand for his lecture series when he returned to England.

Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Curator required
Part of
Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia
Format
24 colour original transparency/ies slides, Transparencies, Dye coupler slides, 35mm
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