Owner of Bushy Park, Kai Iwi, near Wanganui. He was known as Frank Moore, and was the younger son of James Moore, who with James Currie, founded the Bushy Park station. Frank Moore commissioned C Tilleard Natusch to design a house which was completed in 1906. (See "Bushy Park scenic reserve, Kai Iwi, Wanganui" by the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand 1967). See also internet: http://bushypark.co.nz/BP-Full/history.html.
Moore, George Francis Maitland, 1876-1962
Moore, Frank, 1876-1962
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Natusch, Charles Tilleard, 1859-1951 :Residence to be erected at Kai Iwi (nr Wanganui) ...
Date: 1905 - 1982
From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson, architects :[Architectural plans. 1955-1988].
By: Natusch, Charles Tilleard, 1859-1951
Reference: Plans-2005-057-1905
Description: A floor plan of a house with seven bedrooms, billiard room, smoking room, breakfast room, dining room, store, hall, pantry, larder, dairy, servants' entry, scullery, knife and boot room, bathroom, lavatory and washhouse. One plans states that it has been rescaled in 1982 to metric measures. No job number for these plans. Reference number reflects date of completion rather than job number. "When Frank Moore decided to build a new house he chose an elevated site off Rangitatau Road, with native bush as a backdrop ... The house was erected by Messrs Russell and Bignell; the gardens were designed and landscaped by Mr I Cameron, landscape gardener of Westmere; while the carving of the mantelpiece and the sideboard in the dining room was executed by Mr W Andrews of the Wanganui Technical School of Design" (From Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society of NZ "Bushy Park scenic reserve, Kai Iwi, Wanganui" (1967)). Inscriptions: Recto - (Attached Post-it note): This tracing is prepared from the original plans; rescaled within tolerances dictated by paper movement of original drawing. Desco copy. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Desco copies on tracing paper, 445 x 595 mm.
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Fern drive. Bushy Park. Kai Iwi
Date: 1923
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
By: Moore, George Francis Maitland, 1876-1962
Reference: Pan-2175-F
Description: Panoramic view of a variety of ferns including tree ferns in a bend of the Fern Drive at Bushy Park. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-1684, Pan-1685, Pan-1686, Pan-1687, Pan-1689 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Fern drive. Bushy Park. Kai-iwi. New Zealand. No. 307; Marginal notes on negative - Moore. Bushy Park Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 114.7 cm
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Distant view, Bushy Park, Kai Iwi, 1923
Date: 1923
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-1687-F
Description: Panoramic view looking down over rolling farmland to a side view of Bushy Park Homestead in the centre middle distance. A road winds down the hill from the right, beneath a hill in the foreground, and out to the left. Large woolshed partially hidden among trees to the right of the house. Car parked on road near small farm buildings left foreground. Thick bush across hilltops and behind and to the left of the house. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-1684, Pan-1685, Pan-1686, Pan-1688, Pan-1689 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Distant view. Bushy Park. Kai Iwi. 1923; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R P Moore's circular business stamp Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.1 cm
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Homestead. Bushy Park, Kai iwi, 1923
Date: 1923
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
By: Moore, George Francis Maitland, 1876-1962
Reference: Pan-1685-F
Description: Panoramic view looking up at a large single-storeyed wooden house with curved bays at each end of a long verandah, Ionic columns. A smaller porch on the right has square pillars with Doric styled tops. Bench seats on the verandah and a decorative parapet above. Wide expansive lawn sloping down all around to clipped hedging above farmland. Summer house centre left below the level of the house, trees in background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-1684, Pan-1686, Pan-1687, Pan-1688, Pan-1689 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Homestead. Bushy Park "Kai iwi" 1923; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Homestead. Bushy Park. 3 copies Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 118.8 cm
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Bushy Park, Kai Iwi
Date: 1923
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-1689-F
Description: Panoramic view looking down from Bushy Park Homestead, corner of house with curved bay and verandah posts on far left. View over rolling fields beyond a clipped hedge below the house. Cultivated fields and orchard below house left centre, stand of native trees beyond the house. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-1684, Pan-1685, Pan-1686, Pan-1687, Pan-1688 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Bushy Park. Kai Iwi; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R P Moore's circular business stamp; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] F. Moore, Bushy Park, Kai iwi. 1 sepia. 2 B&W Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 101.1 cm
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Panorama of Bushy Park from Homestead. 1923
Date: 1923
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-1684-F
Description: Panoramic view looking down from Bushy Park Homestead, corner of house with curved bay and verandah posts on far left. View over rolling fields beyond a clipped hedge below the house. Cultivated fields and orchard below house left centre, stands of native trees far left and far right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-1685, Pan-1686, Pan-1687, Pan-1688, Pan-1689 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Panorama of Bushy Park from Homestead. 1923; Marginal notes on negative - [On white adhesive tape] F. Moore, Bushy Park, Kai iwi. 3 40 x 10. 1 to be sepia & framed. 3 [?] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.0 cm
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Virgin Bush. Bushy Park Estate. Kai Iwi. 1923
Date: 1923
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
By: Moore, George Francis Maitland, 1876-1962
Reference: Pan-1688-F
Description: Panoramic view looking down over cleared paddocks to a large fenced area of native bush. Many tree ferns visible amongst the trees. A few farm animals centre left foreground which gives a sense of scale. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-1684, Pan-1685, Pan-1686, Pan-1687, Pan-1689 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Virgin Bush. Bushy Park Estate. Kai iwi. 1923. No. 350 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 106.3 cm
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Bushy Park, Kai Iwi, 1923
Date: 1923
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
By: Moore, George Francis Maitland, 1876-1962
Reference: Pan-1686-F
Description: Panoramic view looking up a driveway to a large single-storeyed house on the far left. The drive curves from the right around a large sloping lawn planted with specimen trees, some with flower beds beneath. Clipped hedge along drive on left. Farmland visible among trees in centre distance. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-1684, Pan-1685, Pan-1687, Pan-1688, Pan-1689 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Bushy Park. Kai Iwi. 1923; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R P Moore's circular business stamp Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 107.4 cm