Drainage - New Zealand - Hawke's Bay Region
Digging a drainage ditch in Whakaki
Date: September 1889
From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
Reference: 1/1-025564-G
Description: Men digging a drainage ditch in Whakaki. Robert Porter is the 4th from the front. Three men, including John Hunter Brown (right), stand on the banks nearby. Taken by Edgar Richard Williams in September 1889. 1/1-025563 was also taken at this time Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Digging a drainage ditch in Whakaki
Date: September 1889
From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
Reference: 1/1-025563-G
Description: Men digging a drainage ditch in Whakaki. Robert Porter is the 4th from the front. Three men, including John Hunter Brown (right), stand on the banks nearby. Taken by Edgar Richard Williams in September 1889. 1/1-025564 was also taken at this time Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
[Creator unknown] :Ahuriri Lagoon reclamation. Scheme plan. [copy of ms map]. Drawing n...
Date: 1932 - 1937
Reference: MapColl-832.395eam/[ca.1932]/Acc.2756
Description: Ahuriri Lagoon reclamation scheme planning map, drawing no. 1, depicting the lagoon reserve, (including Te Ruru-o-Kuri Island), catchment areas outside the lagoon reserve, drainage areas (both gravity and pumping), contour channels and stopbanks, as referred to in reference keys. Shows the old riverbed of the Tutaekuri River, part of the East Coast Railway, the Westshore Bridge, landing ground, and main highway north. Some pencil annotations on map. See second copy Acc.2955. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, 49 x 80 cm.
Maori village and canoe, on Whakaki Lagoon
Date: Sep 1889
From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
Reference: 1/1-025561-G
Description: Kainga (Maori village) and waka (canoe) on Whakaki Lagoon in September 1889. Photograph taken by William Williams. Note on back of file print reads "Kainga and canoe on main drainage canal at Whakaki, September 1889. Published in "The Rural Economy and Agriculture of Australia and New Zealand" by Robert Wallace. pl XLV. Dated from itinerary of author." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative