Grand Pacific Hotel (Suva, Fiji)

Date: 1945

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1169/1172

Description: Shows details of wheeled beds, wardrobe with interior drawers, stool and dressing table. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on dressed linen, and one pencil drawing, sizes varying around 530 x 755 mm.

Date: 1935 - 1949

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Johnston, G W, active 1930-1940s

Reference: Plans-92-1216/1217

Description: Shows plan for incised mirror in three pieces; two sets off plain walls panels. Also incised mirror on three sides of column; and one set for two sides of column. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying around 375 x 730 mm.

Date: 1946

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm); Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1261/1266

Description: Design drawings for glass panels, with motifs including lobsters, beer mug, drinks glass, corkscrew, cork, bottle-top, bottle-opener, fish bubbles and seaweed. Other Titles - Full size Other Titles - Company Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil (some coloured) on tracing paper, sizes varying about 450 x 695 mm.

Date: 1949

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-93-0101/0108

Description: Includes elevation of gate and wall, new screen door in hall of first floor, ground and first floor plans, elevation and section of screen; elevation of bathroom walls, sections through window frame. Quantity: 8 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawings on tracing paper and dressed linen, and diazo prints, sizes varying

Date: 1945 - 1947

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm); Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1270/1278

Description: Includes plans, elevations and sections, sections through sink bench, handrail, shelves, architraves, terrazzo counter and details of stainless steel. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, and ink drawings on dressed linen, sizes varying

Date: 1946 - 1948

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1233/1256

Description: Includes details of hoods over beds, drainage plan, proposed new lavatories, position of basins in bedrooms, details of cabinets in bedrooms, details of bed wheels and foots, perspective drawings of single and double beds with netting in position, dressing tables, amended details of securing pipe standards to foot of beds. Quantity: 23 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, and ink drawings on dressed linen, sizes varying

Date: 1949 - 1953

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm); Ellis, Hardie, Symington Ltd

Reference: Plans-93-0111/0116

Description: Includes part ground floor plan, sections of freezer unit, typical door section. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings on tracing paper, and blueprints, sizes varying

Date: 1948 - 1949

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1218/1227

Description: Includes first floor plan, floor plan for proposed new bathrooms, details of women's lavatory and men's lavatory, proposed W.C. for manager, alterations to lavatories for manager, proposed quarters for manager and staff. Quantity: 10 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings, diazo prints, and one ink drawing, sizes varying

Date: 1933 - 1946

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1173/1177

Description: Includes framing plan, part elevation of roof trusses, block plan and sections for the Union Steam Ship Co premises in Suva. For the Grand Hotel, shows the layout of ground floor and first floor bedrooms. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, diazo prints and blueprints, sizes varying

Date: 1939 - 1947

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1257/1260

Description: Includes ground floor plan and first floor plan, and perspective drawing of the front exterior. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes vary around 560 x 705 mm.

Date: 1955 - 1960

From: Tasman Empire Airways Limited: [Ephemera, pamphlets, menus, advertising, published in the 1950s]

By: Tasman Empire Airways Ltd; Clark, Nobby, 1921-

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-TEAL-1950s-01

Description: A brochure illustrated by Nobby Clark while he worked for Haythorn-Thwaite in the 1950s. The cover shows a small Fijian boy riding on the back of a tortoise with his catch of fish. There is a hibiscus at lower left. The boy appears in an oval shape. Inside are photographs on a Fijian beach, the Grand Pacific Hotel Suva, Korolevu Beach resort, and Blue Lagoon cruising. There is also an illustration of a mountainous island with beach huts and yachts. Housed inside brochure cover designed by Nobby Clark. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on pages of brochure. Physical Description: Photolithographs, on brochure folded to 232 x 103 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1947

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-92-1267/1268

Description: Includes a perspective drawing of the bar, showing the counter, drink dispensers, clock and cash register.os includes a floor plan of the bar room. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: 1946

Reference: Eph-A-FIJI-1946-01

Description: Menu card shows an illustration to the left of the text, of a tall palm tree against a starry night sky, with the circular outline of the moon. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card, 235 x 150 mm.

Date: 1948

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1232

Description: Shows plan and elevation of bar counter, and location drawing for glass panels. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 405 x 660 mm.

Date: 1944

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1145/1147

Description: Includes roof plans and sections, detail sections of walls and windows, detail of fabric roofing and flashing before laying of precast slabs, detail of completed work showing slabs and flashing. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, and diazo print, sizes varying

Date: 1947 - 1953

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: V P Haughton & Son (Firm); Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-93-0109/0110

Description: Shows elevations of billiard room wall, floor plan; existing and proposed floor plan schemes for conversion of billiard room into bedrooms. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: 1933 - 1939

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-92-1148/1165

Description: Includes floor plans, elevations and sections of the single storey USSCo building; framing and trusses, details of front awning, details of front elevation, details of counter and desks, piles and beams, reinforcing in walls, roof trusses, ceiling plan, elevations and details of show windows, floor plans of the Grand Pacific Hotel. Quantity: 18 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, ink drawings on dressed linen, diazo prints and blueprints, sizes varying

Date: [ca 1950s]

By: Fiji. Public Relations Office

Reference: PAColl-0449

Description: Set of photographs of Fijian life taken by the government's Public Relations Office. They include aspects of the copra and sugar industries (transportation, milling etc); view of Nabui a peak in the Korobasabasaga range on Viti Levu; the Triangle, a park in Suva; children sitting on the lawns in front of the Leprosy Hospital supervised by Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary; a bridge carrying the King's Road over the Rewa River at Nausori; trainee teachers learning woodworking skills making furniture at college; a man having a blood sample taken in the fight against filaria (a parasitic disease); a presentation at the start of a traditional feast with whole roast pigs; two men taking part in a yaqona or kava ceremony; two pupils next to a plaque at Queen Victoria School; traditional bure (houses) at Matayalevu; Fijian policemen on parade in Suva; women performing an action song called vakamalolo; Nadi airport; a child being weighed at a clinic; the island of Bau, headquarters of Roko Tui Tailevu, the head of the district; five women in bathing suits walking along a beach at Nukulau; the wharves at Levuka and Suva; a view of Suva showing the Grand Pacific Hotel and the government buildings; an Indian ploughing with bullocks; women doing their laundry in a river; men fishing communally in a yavirau (fishdrive) where the men form a circle and drive the fish into a net; an operation underway with an European doctor and Fijian assistants at the Colonial Medical School; and a class at a school on Moturiki. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Prints 259mm x 204mm with captions on the reverse

Date: [Circa 1920s-1930s]

From: Taylor, Jill fl 1984 :Photographs relating to Alice Brown, Wellington sports teams, Wellington's Queen Carnival and Red Cross Transport

Reference: PA1-o-492

Description: Snapshots relating to Alice Brown, taken in Fiji and Samoa circa 1920s to 1930s. A few of the images have pencilled captions on the back, but most have no information. Many of the scenes show everyday life in Fiji, including burning off (sugar cane?); meke dancers; various kinds of fruits and vegetables; thatched dwellings; church buildings; net fishing; young boys climbing up coconut palms; a yacht race; Fijians and Fijian Indians; and Europeans swimming and picnicking. Samoan scenes include Robert Louis Stevenson's tomb; a Roman Catholic Church near Apia; thatched houses; a group of European women having a picnic on a lawn, and on a beach wearing swimsuits. There are 20 looses photographs inserted at the end of the album, some of which had originally been attached. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover tied with cord; 19 x 29 cm

Date: 1948 - 1953

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-93-0121/0135

Description: Includes ground floor plan and first floor plan, and general section through two storey hotel building. Quantity: 15 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo plans, pencil and ink drawings, sizes varying