Royal Mail coaches, main office at Hastings Street, Napier, owned by Samuel Crowther (of Napier), and William McCauley (of Tokaanu). Had a stables at Waiouru with advertisement on the rood reading "Crowhtr & McCauley's Royal Mail coaches between Waiouru, Tokaanu, Taupo, Wairakei, Waiotapu, Rotorua". See Wise's Post Office Directory (1906 edition, p 531).
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Adkin album 07
Date: Circa 1900s
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-f-003
Description: Album of black & white photographs taken during the early 1900s, showing geological formations in New Zealand. They include images of the Banks Peninsula, Sumner, Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Lyttelton Harbour, and the Halswell River, in several sequences in the album; flooding of the Koputaroa Stream at Levin, on 4 December 1906; Lake Horowhenua; Paekakariki Coast; the Wairarapa, including Orongorongo Valley, Wharekauhau Stream, Wainuiomata, Palliser Bay, Mukamuka Valley, Eglinton's Hut; Tongariro National Park area, including Waiouru (in which the stables of Crowther & McCauley coach services are visible), the source of the Waikato River at the gorge and waterfall of the Mangatoetoenui Stream; Mount Ruapehu, crater lake, the Waihohonu Hut, Te Heuheu Peak, Flounder Glacier and Waikato Glacier; Mount Ngauruhoe, slopes and craters and the source of the Ohinepango Stream; Mount Tongariro, Ketetahi Springs and Ketetahi Hut, craters and crater lakes including the Red crater, and Blue and Green Lakes
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Carriage driver with Leonard and Ernest Lancaster, at Waihohonu Hut, Tongariro National...
Date: 12 Feb 1910
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua
Reference: PA1-o-003-105
Description: Horse drawn carriage hired from Crowther and McCauley, and group, outside Waihohonu Hut, Tongariro National Park, during an expedition with George Leslie Adkin. From left to right: carriage driver (unidentified), Leonard Lancaster, and his uncle Ernest Lancaster. The corrugated iron hut backs on to the edge of a beech forest. Photograph taken 12 February 1910 by George Leslie Adkin. Original caption reads: "Arrival at the Waihohonu Hut, a two-roomed structure of corrugated iron." for further information regarding this expedition see "An eye for country, the life and work of Leslie Adkin" by A Dreaver, 1997, pages 60-63 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 105. Arrival at the Waihohonu Hut, a two-roomed structure of corrugated iron Arrangement: See album PA1-o-003, page 14 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11 x 15.4 cm, on album page 30.5 x 41.7 cm