Summer

Security guards squirt water to cool the crowd at Masterton’s Summer Hummer music festival in 2003. Held every February, the one-day event is aimed at the region’s youth. It attracts up to 10,000, ...

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A cartoon about summer weather.

A painting by Charles Sims.

A SUMMER CAMPING PARTY AT WAIKAWAI BAY, MANUKAU HARBOUR. Auckland Region (N.Z.)

Photograph of first Mangatoi School picnic, on Mokau River, taken February 1928 by Robert E Wells. A motorboat is in the foreground. Pupils are diving into the river from the punt in the backgrou...

Members of the Presbyterian Bible class having picnic. From left: Shirley Salter; Beverley Newton; Helen Dunlop; Beth Thompson, Jocelyn Mead; David Hounsell (in front); unknown; Elayne Thompson; un...

Typical Christchurch summer day at Pines Beach. Blue sky, scattered cloud, easterly coming off the sea. My brothers and sisters and their families making castles in the sand. Who is having more fun...

Cartoon referring to summer and the start of the fishing season.

Description: Recreation - Picnics - Barbeque on Westshore Beach, Napier. Photographer: J. Waddington Date: February 1975 Archival reference: AAQT 6539 W3537 152 / B7409 www.archway.archives.govt.n...

Little Nippers out at Papamoa Beach, 2010

Come late December and thousands of Kiwis get ready for their annual holiday. They look forward to lazy days at the beach or the bach (or crib), games of backyard cricket, food on the barbie and th...

Teenager Katherine Irvine, pictured in February 1987, worked in Wellington during the school holidays serving ice creams and milkshakes. The long summer holiday can leave teenagers bored and broke....

The old problem of getting the charcoal barbecue going. More smoke than heat to start with ! My brother and brother-in-law trying to get some heat out of the BBQ. My nephew in the sandpit. Tomatoes...

Children at Wilton School race across the playground on their way to the Christmas holidays. In the background teacher Mrs O Dohig looks on. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on ...

Surf lifeboat crew in action at the Wellington Surf Lifesaving Championships. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Melanie Burford 13 March 1997. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s...

If charm were valued more highly in art, The Beach would be one of Dunedin’s most valuable paintings. Instead it is one of the best loved, a painting whose intimate scale and children’s book detail...

Group of children playing leap frog up the beach in a line. The girl in the fore ground is mid jump. Visible in the back ground are the beach and hills/islands.

The more normal flower colour in a planting of this species along tree way. Guess it is now official - summer has finally made its way to Tamaki Makaurau

Shows two men giving their opinions about the great summer of 2007-2008. A farmer sweats with heat and anxiety and declares the summer a 'bummer' and a holiday maker sunbathes in his deckchair and ...

Painting of the Orari Gorge in summer by Austen Deans.

Cartoon referring to New Zealand’s high rate of skin cancer.

Policeman wearing summer helmet photographed in 1950 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Frances Hodgkins valued this work highly – it was one of the more expensive in her Australian and New Zealand exhibitions. But at £60 in Melbourne it did not sell, nor when reduced to £42 in Sydney...

Boy eating ice cream at Oriental bay, Wellington. Photograph taken ca 7 December 1996 by Juley Van Der Reyden. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye couple...

Series: Infant reading pictures. School Publications Branch, Department of Education. 1957.

Buses have been another site for inventive advertising. This advertisement for Trumpet ice creams was an Axis competition winner for Colenso in 2006. When the image was posted on the Flickr website...

Bach and dinghy, South Island east coast, photographed in late 1984 or early 1985 by Paul Thompson. Publication note - Published in: Paul Thompson, The bach (Wellington: Government Printer, 1985) ...

View of a row of brightly-coloured baches on the edge of a body of water.

cibachrome 417 x 613 mm - Brian Brake is New Zealand's most celebrated photo-journalist and his images have been published in such prestigious journals as National Geographic, Paris-Match and Life...

BEACH OF THE MT MAUNGANUI, TAURANGA, NEW ZEALAND Mount Maunganui is a coastal resort town and beach city in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, located on a peninsula to the north of Tauranga.

A gallery of items related to summer activities.

Images relating to Kiwi summers.

A gallery of images related to summer.