Spa Hotel (Taupō, N.Z.)

Date: ca1900-1956

By: Bailey, Colin Lennie, 1906-1997; Bailey, Sue, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-6025

Description: Views of Westport, Denniston, Blackball, Ngakawau, Millerton, Inangahua Junction, Seddonville, Dunedin, Gore, Milford Sound, Greymouth and Taupo Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. Provenance: The late Professor C L Bailey, from the VUW Department of Education, collected photographs and other items relating to New Zealand history from members of the public.

Date: 1905

From: Birch, A E :Scenic negatives and prints taken by Thomas Pringle

Reference: 1/1-007047-G

Description: Geyser in the grounds of the Spa Hotel, Taupo, photographed ca 1905 by Thomas Pringle of Wellington. Dated from other negatives in sequence. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1978 - 1979

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: Radio New Zealand

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1979-01

Description: Pamphlet advertises a series of radio programmes relating to the legends of Lake Taupo, and lists the titles of the six radio programmes examining the traditions around the lake its reefs and islands. The cover shows a detail of a carving from the interior of Te Tiki o Tamamutu, the carved meeting house at the Spa Hotel, Taupo. Included is a map of the lake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet 208 x 592 mm, folded to 208 x 148 mm. Provenance: Donated by Meg Bailey, from the collection of her mother, Rona Bailey, in 2006.

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PAColl-6486

Description: Two views of The Spa Hotel, Taupo surrounded by trees with some people on the driveways. The intials JM appear at the bottom right of one of the images which indicates that Josiah Martin was the photographer. The reference numbers on the images are 347 and 347a. Arrangement: Negatives housed at: 1/4-002892 to 002893 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: [1900-1910]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-013

Description: Views around the Taupo Tongariro area, including Mounts Ngaruahoe and Tongariro, Huka Falls, Aratiatia Rapids, Lake Taupo and Wairakei. There is one image of the Maori interior of Tom Ryan's whare, one of the Terraces Hotel at Lake Taupo, and others of various buildings at the Spa Hotel (Taupo), including the interior of the dining room. This building was the meeting house Te Tiki o Tamamutu, purchased by John Joshua (proprietor of the Spa Hotel) for use as a smoking room and dining room for the hotel guests. Several images show unidentified Maori women in posed groups, or working with flax, and in one case a woman using a treadle sewing machine. An unidentified man is seen, in several images, fishing at pools below the Aratiatia Rapids. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the 19th-20th century. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound album, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

Date: 1904

From: Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Taupo and the surrounding area

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Taupo-1904-01

Description: Postcard shows a two photographs of the Spa, one of each side of the postcard. One side shows an exterior view of the Spa buildings, and one an interior view of the dining room. The address and message are handwritten, to Miss Baker, Napier Terrace, Napier. The message is: "Dear Miss Baker, Just a line leaving here tomorrow. Weather fair. Good time. Will drop another card later. Yours truly, M O O'Connor[?]" Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 91 x 137 mm. Provenance: Purchased from the Complete Stamp Company, Auckland, in 2013.

Date: 1890 - 1895

From: Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Taupo and the surrounding area

By: Spa Hotel (Taupō, N.Z.); Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Taupo-1890s-02

Description: Folded pamphlet promotes the hotel as a central location from which to visit geysers and blowholes. The "Spa" Coaching Company will take visitors to Wairakei Geysers, Tokaanu, Arateatea Rapids, Huka Falls and Rotokawa Sulphur Lake. The Maori Carved Dining Hall seats 100 persons, and there is a hot and tepid swimming bath, sulphur bath and tepid blue bath (all are free). There are rose gardens, pine plantations, lawn tennis courts, promenade and ornamental lawns, as well as grazing for horses. The back cover lists tariff. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on card, folded, 115 x 78 mm. Provenance: Purchased from John Martin, dealers Whitehall, London, in 2008.

Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0959-15

Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-008312-G

Description: Maori meeting house used as a dining room at the Spa Hotel, Taupo, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [190-?]

Reference: 1/2-C-002479-F

Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Feb 1957

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Ransfield, T, active 1950s

Reference: 1/2-030025-F

Description: Meeting house lounge, Spa Hotel, Taupo, photographed for the National Publicity Studios by T Ransfield, February 1957. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 15 March 1907

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-229-12-1

Description: Maori bath house at the `Spa' (probably the Spa Hotel), Taupo. The whare (Maori building) is decorated with Maori wood carvings and kowhaiwhai (rafter patterns). Photograph taken by Harold Stevens Hislop in 1907. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Bath house "Spa" Taupo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-4249-05

Description: Maori wooden carved panel at the Spa Hotel dining room in Taupo, circa 1905. Photographer unidentified. The Spa Hotel dining room was formerly a meeting house. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 75 x 191 mm

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/1-010995-G

Description: Garden and dining room (inside Maori meeting house building) at the Spa Hotel, Taupo, circa 1905. Photograph taken by Edward George Child. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Spa. Taupo Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1950]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/1-010388-F

Description: Scene in the meeting house lounge of the Spa Hotel, Taupo, circa 1950. Shows the carved central support pole of the building and a hotel employee arranging roses alongside. Photograph taken for National Publicity Studios. Notes on back of file print, from National Publicity Studios, read: "This carving of the head man of the Tribe is very valuable, and is insured for £350. The whole structure is supported by this God and Tuatara Lizard which he holds." Source of descriptive information - File print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: Date unknown, ca 1910?

By: Chatfield family

Reference: 1/2-110835-F

Description: Bath House exterior at the Spa Hotel in Taupo, with Maori carving and painted designs. Date unknown, circa 1910? Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1928

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1911-1/2-G

Description: View of a collection of small buildings at the Spa Hotel, Taupo. Centre left there is a topiary work tree, and a Maori meeting house building which is used for dining is visible in the centre. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1928. Identification of location and place from Godber's own index filed in Photographic Archives at TL 6/1/15 in the 1/2 plate sequence under S. Spa. Taupo. 1928. Box 107. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1950]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/1-010390-F

Description: Man telling a fish story in the meeting house lounge, Spa Hotel, Taupo, circa 1950. Shows a group around a fire. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Birnie, J W: Photographs taken in Taupo including the Spa Hotel

Reference: 1/2-028370-F

Description: The grounds of the Spa Hotel in Taupo showing four women on a bridge over a stream. Photograph taken circa 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).