Surveyors - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-130

Description: Typed draft of A H Bogle's remniscences of his early career as a surveyor, from 1900 to 1930s. Describes early survey practice in the office and around the East Cape area. Includes numerous stories. May have been written for the NZ INstitute of Surveyors `Journal'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 18 May 1989]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Hargest, Jon, active 1989

Reference: EP/1989/1762-F

Description: A Department of Survey and Land Information surveyor checks GPS equipment, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 18 May 1989 by Evening Post staff photographer Jon Hargest. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [1955]-1977

From: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010: Papers

By: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: 77-089

Description: Comprises reference cards and notes; photocopies from ATL Elsdon Best manuscript collection; photocopies from the `NZ gazette' re Tararuas; file of miscellaneous papers including newsletter of the Brisbane Bush Walkers and correspondence with the Appalachian Mountain Club from Tararua Tramping Club; file of extracts re surveying in the Tararuas; file of reports and notes re Tararuas; file, `Early history of the Tararua Ranges'; file, `Extracts from G L Adkin's `Annals of the Tararuas' and text of address; file `Maori travel and trails, Tararua Ranges' by Barton; and file labelled `Tararua misc' which includes photographs of tramping huts and trampers Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1947

By: Dyett, Henry Lewis Percy, 1889-1975

Reference: MapColl-832.4399bje/1947/Acc.36348

Description: Map of the town of Waimeha, now part of Waikanae Beach, is bordered by the sea, Waimeha Road and Rauparaha Street. Sections are numbered. Includes Te Moana Road and Tutere, Ngapaki and Huiawa Streets, the latter being adjacent to the Waimeha Stream. Recreational reserves, raupo and flax swamps are marked. A note states that one section has been purchased by the local body for a future road. Handwritten notes adjacent to the map describe the terrrian and vegetation, a total of acreages of recreation, esplanade and road reserves, roads and allotments, also details of building line restrictions A stamp on bottom left is a receipt of when the plan was submitted to the Local Authority A pencilled note on the numbered recreational reserve includes the acreage Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 45.5 x 48.7 cm. Provenance: Statements of approval are written on the top right of the map and include signatures of H.L.P. Dyett as surveyor, F.S. Little the Deputy Chief Surveyor, J.D. Clammerton [?] for Surveyor General and the Minister of Lands. Some signatures are indecipherable

Date: [1880-1915]

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: 73-155

Description: Comprises papers relating to Buck's career as a surveyor mostly based in Lower Hutt and Wellington and including correspondence, surveying notes, many traverses sheets and related papers. Also includes some letters in Maori, from Moeraki and Otaki, from persons concerned about wrongly sent and received accounts. Also includes five letters in Maori (Kai Tahu dialect) (1) informing the receiver of the arrival of a carpenter's bill, and the writer's intent to pursue the matter with a lawyer; (2) expressing concern about the management and use of land at Otaki; (3) details a court case involving stolen money. Wiles is asked to confirm that he sent £50 to the person from whom it was stolen; (4) reports progress of this case and asks Wiles to attend; and (5) discusses difficulties in attending case because of bereavement and associated costs Language - Four letters from Moeraki in Kai Tahu dialect; one from Otaki (all re accounts problems) and other papers in Maori Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-0540 for letters from Buck Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-131

Description: Typed articles and fragments of writings (which may be part drafts of his reminscences). Mainly of an anecdotal nature. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1905-1918

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8066-05

Description: Photographs of surveyors on the job in the eastern Wairarapa, the Rangatikei District, and the Wanganui River. Most of these photographs date from 1905 to 1907 and include Hugh Bogle and Hubert Girdlestone. There are three photographs relating to sports. One is an unidentified rugby team with Hubert Girdlestone in the front row. Another is of a women's hockey match in Auckland in 1907, and the third shows hurdlers in action during the Basin Reserve sports of March 1909. Three images show an unidentified wood slab built cottage, and the rest are of unidentified people. Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1913]

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-913

Description: There are six general groups of photographs making up this album. The first relates to a surveying tramp through part of the the south eastern Rimutaka Ranges. It begins at Wharepapa outstation west of Lake Onoke (Lake Ferry). There are views of Palliser Bay, Lake Ferry, Wharepapa outstation, the surrounding farmland, and people attached to the station. The survey team's tramp into the mountains followed the Wharepapa River north west of the station and then up the Papatahi stream to the Papatahi trig. Here they set up camp which is depicted under snow. They then moved south to the trig on Mount Matthews where they again set up camp. There are images of tents, men, native forest, Mt Matthews, the trig, dogs, the surrounding ranges, and views of Palliser Bay. The party descended with their equipment via Matthews Stream to Eglington's Whare at Mukamuka. The second group is a record of a family holiday at Tokaanu and Lake Taupo. Again there are views of the tents, and the party consisted of women as well as men, including Girdlestone's mother. There are images of the Tokannu River, the Tokaanu Stream, the Tongariro River, views of Tokaanu township, the Tokaanu wharf on Lake Taupo, boats, the Waimarino track, hot springs, rod fishers on Lake Taupo and the rivers, and the Tongariro Bridge. There are a group of images taken during a fishing trip and picnic at Waihaha, Western Bay, Lake Taupo, and a view of Waihi Village and the Waihi Falls. Another group of images of Maori were taken at Otukou west of Lake Rotaira, and include views of the meeting house "Okahukura". The third group of images relate to a survey camp in the Tokaanu/Waimarino area, though there may be camps in more than one location. The main camp was located at Tokaanu, but another is described as being on the Waimarino plains, and another is located on the Pihanga Saddle. There are views of the camp, tents, men, and of life in the camp such as hair cutting, and Maori visiting on Sunday (one of the team's members was Maori). Images of bush and distant views were taken along the horse track from Otukou to Tokaanu, and there are views of the Volcanic Plateau and Mount Ngauruhoe, Otukou Village, hot springs, Ketetahi hut cookhouse and springs on Mount Tongariro, Pihanga hill south of Tokaanu, the countryside and a climbing party on Ngauruhoe. The fourth group consist of twelve photographs taken in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth. The fifth group of 46 images record a climb up Mount Egmont. There are views of the mountain, native forest, climbers in the snow, and the accomodation house. One group of images consists of close ups of native alpine plants in flower. The sixth group relate to a walking trip on the Volcanic Plateau through forest and open country. There are views of the mountains, cliffs, a stream and celmisias in flower. At the end of the album there is a small group of miscellaneous images Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1843

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Morgan, A M B (Mrs), active 1972

Reference: B-113-002

Description: Two European explorers walking up a hill in the foreground towards three other men who are gazing at the lake beyond them and the distant hills in the background. Fox explored the Wairarapa in May 1843 with Clifford, Vavasour and Whitehead with a view to initial surveying and establishing farming in the area. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title (with the lake's name misspellt) in ink in the artist's hand; Verso - second part of title and date. Compare also an almost identical watercolour by Fox in the Hocken Library, titled Lake and lower part of Wairarapa, the valley of the Wairarapa taken from the West side, 1843. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 147 x 244 mm Provenance: Purchased: Mrs A M B Morgan, 15 Upland Road, Kelburn. 10 November 1972

Date: [ca 1913]

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-913-08-4

Description: Member of a Department of Lands and Survey surveying party climbing a ridge on Mount Matthews with a box of instruments strapped to his back. He is moving on all fours. Photographed by Hubert Earle Girdlestone in about 1913. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Swagging up to Mount Matthew's trig. Big box 80 lbs weight. The party had come from their former camp site at the Papatahi trig. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 12.4 x 7.3 cm, mounted on album page

Date: [ca 1859]

From: Crawford family :Photographs of James Coutts Crawford and family

Reference: PA1-f-019-22-3

Description: Robert Park, chief surveyor to the Wellington Provincial Council, and his daughter Agnes, photographed ca 1859-1860, in Wellington, by an unknown photographer, possibly James Coutts Crawford. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print, and information at PA1-f-019 and PA1-f-019-18-1. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Robert Park and Agnes Park Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 12.3 x 9.7, mounted on album page (measurements approximate as print is unevenly trimmed)

Date: 1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/207/06-G

Description: Group of men from the survey party for the Porirua highway 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

Date: [ca 1859]

From: Crawford family :Photographs of James Coutts Crawford and family

Reference: PA1-f-019-18-1

Description: Robert Park, chief surveyor to the Wellington Provincial Council, and his daughter, photographed ca 1859-1860 by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Mr Robert Park & daughter Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 11.9 x 9.5 cm mounted on album page