New Zealand. Public Trust Office. Napier

Date: 1931

From: Insurance Council of New Zealand :Photographs of people associated with Insurance Companies and Underwriters' Associations, and various related insurance activities

Reference: PA1-f-145-07-37

Description: From caption -- "Public Trust: Badly cracked and unsafe. Sure to be condemned." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1995-1996, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-12252

Description: Transparencies of concrete construction in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the concrete structure. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Buildings/structures and locations annotated on the slide mounts include cement works manager's house at Mahurangi [Warkworth], dairy at Maraekakaho, Firth's tower near Matamata, Public Trust Office in Napier, Devonport Flats in New Plymouth, former Egmont Brewery in New Plymouth, former dairy factory at Ngatea, hangar interior at Ohakea, cookshop at Okuku Pass Station, Aotea canoe memorial at Pātea, concrete tankstand at Bedford Road in Taranaki, Metze house at Pleasant Point, concrete house at 74 Te Nga Wai Road in Pleasant Point, hall and library at Portland, and 'Mercerdale' at Puerua. Title supplied by Library. Few slides have dates annotated Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a six-row, 43 slides per row, metal case. The case was not labelled; the order appears have begun as largely alphabetical by location, name of building/structure, or name of station/farm; however, arrangement becomes more disordered in the last two rows of the case. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: [after 3 Feb 1931]

From: Thomson, Richard J, fl 1931-1945 :Three panoramas of Napier showing the city before, as the result of the earthquake, and rebuilt

By: Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977

Reference: PAColl-D-0819-2

Description: Photograph taken from Napier Hill looking south-east over the city from Napier Hill. The Public Trust building which survived the earthquake intact is on the far right. Similar but not identical panoramas at PA6-544 & PA6-545 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Napier after the great earthquake & fire 3 Feb 1931 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 220 x 1000 mm on card 740 x 1060 mm

Date: 1931

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 14

Reference: PAColl-6585-73

Description: Napier after the 1931 earthquake. The Public Trust Office is visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 7.5 x 13.8 cm

Date: ca 1920s

Reference: 1/2-091173-F

Description: The Public Trust Office building, viewed from the corner of Dalton and Tennyson Streets, Napier. Taken circa 1920s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [Circa 1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-f-051

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways Department. The first sequence shows Napier before the 1931 earthquake, and after. Photographs include various buildings seriously damaged, including the hospital, the Masonic Hotel, Public Trust offices in Napier and in Hastings, the Hastings Post Office, and a view of the Napier Park Refugee Camp. Further sequences show areas of interest in New Zealand, including an early photograph of the Pink and White Terraces taken by Charles S Spencer (before the Tarawera eruption in 1886); the Government Sanatorium in Rotorua showing various therapeutic facilities and treatments including diathermy treatment, the private slipper bath, the auxiliary massage douche and the cooling room; a group of men working on carvings at the Rotorua School of Maori Arts and Crafts; members of the Rotorua Hunt Club riding out; Chateau Tongariro interior and exterior views; the Blue Baths in Rotorua; Akitio Homestead and Maunsell's Homestead (Tinui); the Hermitage and Tasman Chalet at Mount Cook (Aoraki); and the Government Accomodation House at Waitomo. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B2'; 36.5 x 49.5 cm