Houhora

Date: 1910 - 1985 - 1935

By: Northwood, Richard Alfred, 1881-1955; Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-019-a/024-a

Description: 6 images: Dalmation gumdiggers, Ahipara district, 1914; Group in Okahu Bush, near Kaitaia, felling tree for shingles to repair roof of St Saviours Anglican Church, ca 1934; Slab hut, Northland, ca 1930s; Baling flax, Lake Ohia ca 1920; Bullock team hauling kauri log from Hokianga bush 1910s; Gumdiggers camp, Houhora district 1910s. On container: An old gumfield warrior. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (beneath each of 6 photolithographic images): Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title]; Verso - top left - Photographs by / The Northwood Brothers / Published with the assistance of the Listener Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (2 copies of set with 6 images).. Physical Description: Cardboard envelope 510 x 390 mm, containing 6 images 258 x 334 mm, on sheets 350 x 440 mm. Provenance: Deposited on Legal Deposit, 1986.

Date: [ca 193-?], 1947, 1950, 1960

By: Vickers, Joy, active 2005

Reference: PAColl-8580

Description: Photographs compiled by Joy Vickers, comprising: Construction of Karapiro Dam, 1947 Motor tour in Northland, June 1950 Mission Bay, 1950, including images of the airplane Aotearoa Mount Messenger and Mokau, 1950 Larnach Castle, ca 1930s Whitianga, 1960 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Order of collection when donated has been maintained Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs Joy Vickers, Morrinsville, in 2005

Date: 25 January - 5 February 1988

By: Aberhart, Laurence, 1949-

Reference: PAColl-3738

Description: Northland post offices closed in 1988 Arrangement: Negatives housed at 10x8-1859 to 1885 Quantity: 27 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives 8 x 10 inches

Date: January 1988

By: Aberhart, Laurence, 1949-

Reference: PAColl-1298

Description: Photographs of post offices and post office agencies, scheduled to be closed in the 1988 Post office restructuring, photographed in January 1988 by Laurence Aberhart. Source of title - Title supplied by Library In 1988 the Alexander Turnbull Library commissioned eight New Zealand professional photographers to make a documentary record of some of the Post Offices that closed that year. Laurence Aberhart was one of these photographers. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1895

By: Thompson, T K, active 1895; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Auckland District Office

Reference: MapColl-832.11cba/1895/Acc.12.993

Description: Survey plan of Hohoura now known as Houhora. Includes part of the area between Ahipara to Scott's Point, north to the Nagataenga Stream, across to Mount Taeore and following the coastline to a beach just south of Perpendicular Point. Includes topographical features and handwritten descriptions of the terrain. Settlements, hills, points, lakes and streams are named. Telephone lines and tracks are marked. Crown Land, The Mount Run and Hohoura Harbour are prominently named. Gum land and gum flats are marked. Some areas are numbered from IX to XVI, but no reference key is given. Some lettering is indistinct in this photocopy. Other Titles - Topographical plan of Hohoura East Survey District Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, [scale indeterminable], 76.2 x 75.9 cm.

Date: 1976 - 1989

By: A H & A W Reed (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Kerse

Description: A selection of unannotated cards from an album, that was dismantled. The cards are now numbered and listed below in the order in which they appeared in the album (roughly in geographical order from north to south). Some cards which contained family-related annotations on the verso were returned to the donor: 1. Waitangi Treaty House. Photograph L Johnstone 2. Waitangi Hotel, bridge Pa and Museum of Shipwrecks, Northland. Photo Lyric Studios Auckland 3. Flagpole, Treaty House Waitangi. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 4. Oldest stone and wooden buildings in N.Z., Kerikeri. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 5. Paihia, Bay of Islands. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 6. Williams Memorial Church Paihia, bay of Islands, New Zealand. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 7. Maori meeting house, Waitangi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 8. Interior Maori meeting house, Waitangi. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 9. Russell, Bay of Islands, N.Z. Photography Norm Pumfleet 10. Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Russell Bay of Islands [replica of 'Endeavour' at 1/5 size) 11. Historic Anglican Church, built 1835. Russell Bay of Islands. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 12. Pompallier House, Russell, N.Z. Photograph by James Sears 13. Wagener Museum, Houhora, Northland. Photograph Robert Wells. Published and distributed by A H and A W Reed 14. Wagener Museum, Houhora, Northland. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 15. Houhora Hotel Northland. Photograph Lyric Studios. Published and distributed by A H and A W Reed 16. Waitiki Landing, Northland. photograph J Munk. Published and distributed by A H & A W Reed 17. Sheep farming New Zealand. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 18. Cape Reinga Lighthouse settlement. Photograph Robert Wells. Published and distributed by A H & A W Reed 19. Te Paki Stream, Northland. photograph J Kissling. Published and distributed by A H & A W Reed 20. Crossing a stream on Ninety Mile Beach. Photo by Carl Perham; produced by SceniColour, Whakatane 21. Cape Reinga Lighthouse and signpost, Northland. Photograph and printing by Fotocentre, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand 22. Tauranga Motel. Published by Graham Powell, Pakuranga, Auckland, N.Z. 23. Sandown Park Motor Hotel, Childers Road, Gisborne, New Zealand. Logan Print Ltd Gisborne 24. High jumping dolphins thrill the crowds at Marineland of NZ, Napier NZ. M 19, a "Marineland" viewcard. Sole distributors Napier Development Association. "Colorprint" process by Martin Printing Co. Ltd., Napier, N.Z. 25. Churchill Heights, New Plymouth NZ. Logan Print Ltd Gisborne 26. Farming, Tasman Valley NZ. Produced by Pictorial Publications Ltd., Hastings New Zealand 27. Fox Glacier South Westland, N.Z. taken from Clearwater. Colourchrome series. Photography Gladys M Goodall. Printed by Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 28. The Chalet Restaurant, Arthurs Pass, NZ. Photo John F Allen, PO Box 19675, Woolston, Christchurch 29. Greetings from Akaroa, N.Z. Printed for "The Sea Chest", Akaroa. Quantity: 29 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photographs and photolithographs, sizes varying around 100 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jocelyn Chalmers, Wellington. Donor is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Kerse.

Date: 1978, 1981

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PA12-12018

Description: Colour transparencies featuring Yacht 'Matariki' taken by James (Jim) Watt while on holiday in 1978 and 1981. 'Matariki’ is seen moored in either Abel Tasman National Park [Falls River?] or in the Marlborough Sounds, 1978. Photographs from 1981 show the Kingfish Lodge at Whangaroa in Northland including the boat "Kingfisher". A fishing boat "Jay Patricia AK2087" and "Pandora II" are also photographed [possibly related to Keith Hawke? Houhora?]. Quantity: 8 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1910 - 1985 - 1920

From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-024-a

Description: Shows two men beside their sacking tent, one standing at right mending some sacking, and the other seated in front of the tent cutting gum. The tent chimney is made of sod. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm.

Date: 1975

From: Stafford, Donald Murray, 1927- :The `Far North' ; art prints from original drawings by Don Stafford, Rotorua, Thermalart Productions, 1975.

Reference: A-104-044

Description: A front and side view of the home of an early settler Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 202 x 254 mm

Date: 1911

Reference: MapColl-832.11/1911/Acc.11900

Description: Drawn on a published map, the annotations depict the river and smooth water limits, extended river and partially smooth water limits and the seasonal limits for deep sea sport fishing in the far north. They extend on the east coast from the Parenga-renga Harbour south to the Tukutuku Harbour and on the west coast from the Herekino River and south to the Hokianga Harbour. Base map: 'North Island New Zealand. Sheet 1. The Northern Coast from Hokianga on the west to Tutukaka on the east', (London : Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty, 1907, small corrections updated 1911). Includes two inset maps; one of river and smooth water limits in Parenga-renga Harbour and one of limits in Houhora River (annotation name change from Ohora) Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, part coloured, scale indeterminable, 62 x 93 cm.

Date: 1910 - 1985 - 1920

From: Northwood Brothers fl.1910-1930s :The Northwood Brothers. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with the assistance of the Listener, 1985. (Imagers of a new land, series 4).

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-024

Description: Shows two men beside their sacking tent, one standing at right mending some sacking, and the other seated in front of the tent cutting gum. The tent chimney is made of sod. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title] / Arthur Northwood photograph Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 258 x 334 mm, on sheet 350 x 440 mm.

Date: 1927-1991

By: Smedley, Beryl (Lady), 1922-2011

Reference: MS-Papers-4404

Description: The reminiscences are entitled `Ricky's story - the memoirs of Amy Rickman', as taken down by Beryl Smedley in September 1991. The collection also includes newspaper cuttings, maps, telegrams, invitations, drawings of Rickman in 1927 and other papers concerning her nursing career. Source of title - supplied title Amy Rickman was born in England on 24 December 1892. She came to New Zealand in 1919 as a private nurse to the Campbell family. In 1921 she trained as a nurse in Auckland and later completed her midwifery training in Christchurch. In 1926 she went back to England and undertook some private nursing jobs both there and in France. On her return to New Zealand in 1928, she continued nursing and in 1933 was posted to Houhora, in the far north where she was a district nurse for six years. In 1940 she went to Rarotonga for two years and then to Niue for two years where she became Matron in charge of the Hospital, a position she was to return to in 1946 after two years in New Zealand. In 1949 she returned to England where, after several private nursing jobs there and in America, she retired. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (some photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Lady Beryl Smedley, England, 1991 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - A number of photographs have been transferred to PA.

Date: [ca 1900-1919]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PAColl-7219

Description: Postcards of a Maori chief from Whangape in a feathered cloak with moko and carrying a taiaha; mail coaches leaving Ohaeawai; sheep mustering on McKenzie's Estate, Herekino where the sheep are being herded into a field next to a beach; two of the second oldest church in New Zealand at Waimate North; Bedgood's Mill at Waimate North; Bedgood's mill waterwheel; a horse and cart heading to the Waimate Show in the distance; Te Paki Cattle Station; Houhora Hotel and harbour; Mount Camel and heads, Houhora harbour; moonlight on Houhora harbour; Herekino settlement; Herekino harbour overlooking Keay's with Manukau in the distance; Kerikeri Falls; Kohukohu showing the hotel and other buildings on the waterfront; two boats on the Waihopo River; a girl talking to a boy on a horse with the staff quarters of the Kaitaia Wireless Station behind them; three views of the Kaitai Radio Station (in operation 1912-1929); two men on rope slings gathering gum from a kauri tree; view of Kaikohe; Government Buildings, Kaikohe; Kaikohe Hotel with two men on ponies outside; two men on bicycles with the Kaitaia Post Office behind them; view of Mangonui; a man boating in Mangamuka Gorge; the Mangamuka River; sheep being driven along a road in Marangai, looking west; two views of Marangai looking east; a view of Kerikeri from the river showing the Stone Store and Kemp House; the bathing pool at Ngawha Springs; the Black Lake, Ngawha Springs; Ngataki Lake, Waihopo; boys from Te Kao North Cape Native School doing a haka; Ohaeawai Hotel; the Church of England, Ohaeawai (with additional photography by Radcliffe); the pier in Parengarenga Harbour; sheep on the road at Ohaeawai; a loaded horse-drawn cart on the main street in Ohaeawai, looking west; a steam locomotive pulling kauri logs at Puketi; and a kauri tree in a forest with a hut behind it. Photographer was Northwood Brothers. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002254, 002392, 002395, 002741, 002742, 002744 to 002746, 002748 to 002750, 002788 to 002795, 002809 to 002811, 002825, 002826, 002828, 002881, 002882, 002889, 002909 to 002911, 003123, 003156 to 003159, 003187, 003260 (additional copy at 1/2-021628), 003499 to 003503, 003543, 026804, 002998 to 003000, 032360 Quantity: 48 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1988

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7041

Description: Photographs between Picton and Auckland taken on a return trip from the South Island in 1988 by John Ingle. Views include a barberry hedge; cloudscape at Picton; Queen Charlotte Sound; the Picton ferry and Picton harbour; the scow "Echo"; entrance to the Tory Channel; strong winds in Cook Strait; Cape Reinga Lighthouse and Cape Maria Van Diemen; the Wagener Museum house at Houhora; controlled burnoff along Awakino Road, Dargaville; the fishing wharf in Auckland with "Kia Ora Fish Mart" and Turners & Growers building; Mudflats at Blockhouse Bay. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1910 - 1985 - 1935

By: Northwood, Richard Alfred, 1881-1955; Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Listener (Periodical); Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-

Reference: C-106-019/024

Description: 6 images: Dalmation gumdiggers, Ahipara district, 1914; Group in Okahu Bush, near Kaitaia, felling tree for shingles to repair roof of St Saviours Anglican Church, ca 1934; Slab hut, Northland, ca 1930s; Baling flax, Lake Ohia ca 1920; Bullock team hauling kauri log from Hokianga bush 1910s; Gumdiggers camp, Houhora district 1910s. On container: An old gumfield warrior. Container has not been assigned location number and is therefore not separately catalogued. Other images have been separately catalogued. Other Titles - Photographs by the Northwood Brothers. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (beneath each of 6 photolithographic images): Reproduced from the original glass plates by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of the Listener. / [Title]; Verso - top left - Photographs by / The Northwood Brothers / Published with the assistance of the Listener Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (2 copies of set with 6 images).. Physical Description: Cardboard envelope 510 x 390 mm, containing 6 images 258 x 334 mm, on sheets 350 x 440 mm. Provenance: Deposited on Legal Deposit, 1986.

Date: January - June 2010

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000538

Description: Photographs of Northland buildings, taken January to May 2010 by Dylan Owen Quantity: 54 digital photograph(s).

Date: January 1911

From: Creator of collection unknown: Photographs relating to Dalmatian gum diggers, life on the gumfields, and social events

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949

Reference: PAColl-2144-1-04

Description: Gumdiggers' New Year festival at Houhora, 1911, photographed in January 1911 by Arthur Northwood of Kaitaia, and published in the New Zealand Graphic, 18 January 1911. A group of Dalmatian gumdiggers is shown with a pig which had been cooked on a hangi they had commissioned from the Maori community, a number of whom may also be seen in the group. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print (copy) 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Date: 15 May 1975

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-72663-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Jan 1972

From: Berthold, Martin Grant, 1951- :Negatives of coastal shipping

Reference: 1/4-024718-F

Description: The scow Pearl Kasper at Houhora Harbour, photographed by Martin Berthold in January 1972. Broadside view of the boat, moored on the Harbour's edge, alongside pohutukawa trees. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1910-1939

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-026518-G

Description: View of Houhora, taken between 1910-1939 by Northwood brothers of Kaitaia.. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches