Tunnels - New Zealand - Southland Region

Date: [ca 1955]

From: McComb, Kevin James, 1932-2012: Slides taken around New Zealand

Reference: PA12-11488

Description: Transparency slides showing South Island scenes taken by Kevin James McComb, circa 1955, while on a road trip around New Zealand. Scenes in cities and towns show cable car advertising “DCT Mornington” on a Dunedin street outside a National Party office; view of Port Chalmers and Otago Harbour; a Donald Duck statue on the awning of T & J Thomson Ltd and a view of Caroline Bay, Timaru; lake and parked cars, Wanaka; Lyttelton with port in foreground; swimmers and sunbathers on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown; an unidentified woman pushing a child in a pram across a bridge over the Avon River, Christchurch as well as another image of seagulls on the riverbank; Picton, Marlborough Sounds, seen from wharf. Scenes relating to roads show Arthur's Pass, with views of river and road; cars outside Homer Tunnel; driver warning signs at start of Skippers Saddle Road; the road leading to Sumner; and tunnels marked “In” and “Out” at Ohau Bluff on Christchurch to Blenheim Road. Other images show a billboard advertising a Manapouri-Doubtful Sound tour boat [tourist?] on Lake Manapouri; the floodgates Lake Pukaki; girls from Hukarere Girls’ College in school uniform at Franz-Josef motor camp; a government hostel building at Milford Sound; and Jim Docking and Phil Webster on tarmac with New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC) plane being loaded behind them. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour film phototransparencies in card mounts

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand

By: A H & A W Reed (Firm); Casbolt, Frederick Lennard, 1896-1987; Kiwi Colour Slides; New Zealand. National Publicity Studios

Reference: PA12-10632

Description: Set of scenic slides titled 'The Road to Milford' published by A H & A W Reed, circa 1960s-1980s, and collected by Muriel Edwards. Photographed by F L Casbolt, National Publicity Studios, and F J Watson. Includes image of Lake Te Anau, Eglinton River Valley and Knobs Flat, Lake Gunn, Marian Creek, Beech forest in the Hollyford Valley, the Homer Saddle and the Homer Tunnel's eastern portal, a bridge over a river in the Cleddau Valley, and Mitre Peak and Milford Sound. Slides accompanied by published leaflet 'Kiwi Commentary' describing each image. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Edwards, Muriel, 1907-1981: Slides taken around New Zealand

By: A H & A W Reed (Firm); Kiwi Colour Slides

Reference: PA12-10633

Description: Set of scenic slides of the Milford Track published by A H & A W Reed, circa 1960s-1980s, and collected by Muriel Edwards. Photographers are unidentified. Images are of the following: starting point near Glade House, Clinton River, near the Pampolona Huts, Mount Hart, Jervois Glacier and Mackinnon Pass, Clinton Canyon, Sutherland Falls, Arthur River, Lake Ada, and Milford Sound with horses standing near the water. Some images include unidentified trampers. Unlike other images in this series, there is no accompanying leaflet for this set of slides. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

By: Hatwell, Neville, 1918?-1969

Reference: PA12-8813

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This group includes both slides Mr Williams took himself, and slides he purchased. Several of these were taken by Neville Hatwell. This sheet shows Queenstown Lakes District, and Milford. Views include Queenstown; the Remarkables in the evening with the launch 'Moana' moored at a pier on Lake Wakatipu in the foreground; Lake Manapouri; Te Anau township; the Eglinton Valley and Hollyford Valley, both taken by Neville Hatwell; portal of the Homer Tunnel, and views the other side en route to Milford Sound, including Mount Tutoko and the Cleddau River; the Milford Track; views of the Sound, Sutherland Falls, Lake Ada, Sandfly Point and Sinbad Gully; and the Milford Sound airstrip with a small plane on the runway. The slides are not filed in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 5 April 1965 - 1969

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA12-11573

Description: Transparencies of Southland District, Central Otago District, and Queenstown-Lakes District, taken by Les Cleveland, in 1969. Also a photograph of Mitre Peak taken in 1965. Images show Eglington Valley, Homer Tunnel, camping scene, and scenic views from the road between Te Anau and Milford Sound. Also includes photographs of Lake Te Anau, Lake Manapouri, Lake Wanaka, Makarora, and Roxburgh Dam. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card slide frames Processing information: Slides arrived at the Library in no discernible order. Placed in general order by archivist.

Date: 1941

From: Duthie, Alastair Simpson, 1912-1995 :Photographs of Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition, coast watching in Sub-Antarctic Islands, service in Pacific, 1939-1945

Reference: PAColl-8102-2

Description: Photographs taken over two winters when Alister Duthie was employed on the Homer Tunnel between 1937 and 1939. Photographs taken while Alister Duthie was a member of the "Cape Expedition" which established coastwatching functions in New Zealand's subantarctic islands during the Second world War. While employed at the Homer Tunnel Alister Duthie's main job was to patrol the power lines and report any breakages or other damage. According to Alister Duthie The first trip of the "Cape Expedition" in 1941 was in the "Ranui". The time was spent on board coastwatching, going ashore mainly to hunt fresh meat. Dr Robert Falla, then Director of the Canterbury Museum, was also on this trip, specifically because of his knowledge of the subantarctic islands. The second trip which Duthie made was on the "Tagua" to Campbell Island where they spent their time doing meteriological work. At the end of this term of duty he returned to New Zealand on the "New Golden Hind." The "Ranui," "Tagua," and "New Golden Hind," were three small ships used by the New Zealand Goverment to service its coastwatching committments, not only on its subantarctic islands, but throughout the Pacific. The "Cape Expedition" itself was operational from 1941 to 1945. Quantity: 132 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [194-?]

From: Toms, William E, fl 1950s-1960s :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8986

Description: Photographs taken along the Milford Track ca late 1940s by an unidentified photographer. Collection also includes views of Lake Wakatipu, a road-rail bridge and the Homer Tunnel under construction. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 06 June 1963

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/045

Description: In the interview Mrs Beryl Sutherland, talks to John Roberts in Invercargill. She was married to Jim Sutherland who was involved in the building of the Homer Tunnel and they lived at the Homer tunnel site from 1938 to ca. 1954. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - John Roberts Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington, and Invercargill Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0045 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 1 interview(s). 13 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other no script available.

Date: 1937

By: Thompson, W, active 1937

Reference: PAColl-7279

Description: Photographs of the entrance to the Homer Tunnel and the area around it under heavy snow. They include a New Zealand Medical Association van outside a wooden hut; a man with a medical bag outside a hut; a Public Works Department truck buried in snow; and downed telegraph lines. The photographer was W Thompson. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1930s

Reference: PAColl-6156

Description: Photograph of a group of workers at the Homer Tunnel portal, taken by an unknown photographer; and panoramic group photograph taken by R J Thomson at the New Zealand Basketball Association championships, 1935, held in Wellington. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-721-002

Description: Part of the road leading into the Homer Tunnel in the foreground, a prominent mountain peak across a valley Other Titles - tunnel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sketchbook page, 130 x 207 mm.

Date: 1935 - 1953

From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji

Reference: 1/2-024836-F

Description: Men working with picks and shovels inside the Homer Tunnel. Taken by William Hall Raine. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1939]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-1458-1/4-F

Description: Homer Tunnel entrance, while under construction, circa 1939. Photographer unidentified. Caption on back of file print reads "The mouth of the tunnel which is being driven under the Homer saddle. The tunnel with pierce the Divide between Otago and Southland. Not only will it provide a new tourist route to Milford Sound, but it will open up new fields for climbers, including unclimbed routes on Mount Tutoko." Note on back of file print reads "MNZ Vol 1, No 10, p 30. The Mountains" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1937

From: Thompson, W : Photographs of the Homer Tunnel

By: Thompson, W, active 1937

Reference: PAColl-7279-01

Description: Entrance to the Homer tunnel, under snow, photographed by W Thompson, in 1937. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: March 1954

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-027661-F

Description: Photograph taken by K V Bigwood Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: [ca 1939]

From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery

Reference: 1/2-009020-F

Description: Workers outside the Homer Tunnel, Southland. Photograph taken by Thelma Kent ca 1939. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Mar 1954

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Bigwood, Jean, active 1950s-1970s; Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992

Reference: 1/2-027668-F

Description: Homer Tunnel, under construction, and walls of the Cleddau Valley, Southland. Photograph taken for the National Publicity Studios by Bigwood (K V? or J? or both?). 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: 2013

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0025597

Description: The Colleague informs The Politician that the decision to reject the proposal to put a tunnel through the National Park has pleased the Greens but 'the Prime Minister is furious', not that he was for the project, but it that pleased the Greens. In July 2013 the proposal to put a road tunnel through the Fiordland an Mount Aspiring National Parks to Milford Sound was rejected. The increasing influence of the Green Party in Parliament was alarming to the government, who were concentrating more of their attacks on it. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [196-]

From: Goodall, Gladys Mary, 1908-2015: Scenic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: GG-09-058

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Homer Tunnel, Southland, taken ca early 1960s by Gladys M Goodall. The tunnel is lit by the headlights of vehicles Publication Note - Published by Whitcombe & Tombs as postcard WT454 Inscriptions: Mount recto - top left - The Homer Tunnel; Mount recto - top right - 9-58 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency 6.2 x 8.8 cm, in mount 10.2 x 12.7 cm