Hydroelectricity scheme in the central North Island of New Zealand constructed from 1964-1983, usually known as the Tongariro Power Scheme. The scheme takes water from tributaries of the Rangitikei, Whangaehu, Whanganui, and Tongariro rivers, which drain a 2,600-square-kilometre (1,000 sq mi) area covering Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, Tongariro and the western Kaimanawa Ranges. The water is then sent through a large canal and tunnel system to generate electricity at three hydro power stations, located at Rangipo, Tokaanu, and Mangaio. The water is then drained into Lake Taupo where it is stored for further use in the succession of Waikato River power stations. Comprises the Eastern diversion (Whangaehu River to Rangipo Dam), Tongariro Diversion (Rangipo Dam to Lake Rotoaira), Western Diversion (Whakapapa River to Lake Rotoaira), and Rotoaira Diversion (Lake Rotoaira to Lake Taupo).
Tongariro River (N.Z.) - Power utilisation
Hinkley, Tony, 1940-2001 :Photographs of staff and workmen of Rangipo North section of ...
Date: [ca 1975]
By: Hinkley, Tony, 1940-2001
Reference: PAColl-8002
Description: Photographs of staff and tunnellers of the Rangipo North section of Tongariro Power Project, taken ca 1975 by an unidentified photographer. All individuals are identified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Arranged into order as per listing provided with photographs Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints 16.2 x 21.6 cm Finding Aids: List of photographs that identifies individuals filed with photographs. Provenance: From the estate of Tony Hinkley, 2004 Transfers: To Book Collections - Programme for the official opening of the Rangipo underground power station, 18 November 1983.
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :New Zealand, land of lamb and liquid sunshine. 1967.
Date: 1967
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-133-592
Description: At a trade fair in Rome, New Zealand's products go down well (Italians eating and drinking and saying 'Muy buono') - This is good news just when we are negotiating for Italian capital (two officials hold up a picture of the Tongariro power scheme to an Italian). - A wise move might be an express consignment of liquid assets (beer tanker drives towards open hold of a transport plane), to influence the negotiations (drunk Italian official about to sign document, while his glass is filled by hose direct from the tanker through the window). Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, letratone and pencil, 316 x 456 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
New Zealand. Ministry of Works and Development : Files of newspaper cutting relating to...
Date: 1956-1989
By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works and Development
Reference: 2004-286
Description: Files of newspaper cuttings, 1956-1989, relating to major electric power schemes. Topics covered include Benmore, Roxburgh, Tongariro, Manapouri, Clutha and Clyde projects. Quantity: 43 folder(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter
Photographs taken at the Tokaanu hydroelectric power scheme
Date: [1980s]
From: Sheffield House Publications Collection
Reference: PA12-10948
Description: Photographs taken in the area of the Tokaanu hydroelectric power scheme. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies.
Interview with Kevin Smith
Date: 20 Oct 1998
From: Tongariro Forest oral history project
By: Smith, Kevin David, 1953-
Reference: OHInt-0425/8
Description: Kevin Smith was born in Taumarunui in 1953. Describes going to Owhango Primary School and Taumarunui High School. Mentions his father, Bluey Smith, worked as a bushman and bush boss for Dominion Timber Company from the 1920s to the 1950s. Recalls exploring the forest as a child, working there with his father and deer hunting as a teenager. Talks about his early interest in conservation as the result of a road being built through Ohinetonga Reserve. Describes studying botany and then forestry at university, beginning his PhD on the West Coast and deciding to campaign to protect the native forest instead of finishing his thesis. Describes living in Harihari for fourteen years and working for Native Forests Action Council with Gerry McSweeney and Guy Salmon. Discusses damage to the Tongariro Forest. Mentions goats, other pests and the creation of poor farmland by the Department of Lands and Survey in the southern part of the forest. Comments on the use of red beech for fence posts. Describes writing an ecological report for Forest and Bird. Talks about community support for saving the Tongariro Forest and involvement from the Outdoor Pursuits Centre and Mangatepopo School. Comments on unique forest communities and mentions Waimarino Plateau. Explains the difference in attitude between communities in south Westland and Owhango in terms of their local forests. Discusses the start of the Tokaanu Power Scheme and the destruction of the headwaters of the Whanganui and Whakapapa Rivers. Mentions damage to the blue duck and the wider ecosystem. Discusses mountain biking and the need for wider recreational use in the Forest. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2962. Black and white colour photo of Kevin Smith Search dates: 1998
Dams, work sites, and scenes around New Zealand
Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]
From: Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays
Reference: PA12-8940
Description: Colour slides chiefly of dams and work sites taken by Leslie Eric Oborn ca 1964-1976. Features Aviemore Dam, Takaka/Cobb Hydro Dam, Maunganamu and Tokaanu tailrace, and an unidentified quarry (including people at work). Also includes images of gardens [Avon River?]. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour slides
Album of black and white proof sheets numbered 584-631
Date: January-November 1979
From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1212
Description: Black and white proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other electric power production related images. Includes images of the information centre for the Huntly power station construction, Huntly coal mine, and an open day at the Rangipo power station construction site. Also includes images of the Minister of Energy and National Development, Rt Hon Bill Birch, at press conferences, with head of Tasman Pulp and Paper Company Ronald Trotter at the "Tasman Geothermal signing" in 1979, and with the Secretary of Energy William Duncan at Demand Restraint Advisory Committee meetings. Other named people in the images are Mr. B Kennedy, Mr Summers, Alan Bright. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 48 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding black and white photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating black and white prints ('B&W'). Processing information: Not all names associated with the item are indexed.
Album of black and white proof sheets numbered 782-825
Date: March 1983-September 1984
From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1216
Description: Black and white proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other electric power production related images. Includes images of the openings of Huntly and Rangipo Power Stations, opening of Hamilton District Office, opening of Otematata Group Office, the workers' hostel at Huntly, asbestos removal at various sites, a chemist at Wairakei, Twizel and Tokaanu control rooms, rowers on Lake Ruataniwha, computers at Ohaaki, a picnic day at Otematata, renovation of the Information Centre at Wairakei, members of the Electric Linesmen Training Committee, women with bags of rubbish entitled "tournament rubbish birds", groups of people entitled "newsletter stories" and "stars of the thermal roadshow", Eddie Tubbs' retirement, and portraits of K. Turner, W. Lowrie, T. Mikaere, J. P. F. Robinson, and Mary Dodson, attendant at Wairakei. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 44 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding black and white photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating black and white prints ('B&W').
Album of black and white proof sheets numbered 826-858
Date: October 1984-May 1985
From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1217
Description: Black and white proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other electric power production related images. Images include aerial photographs of various dams and power stations, a sequence of people entitled "GM interview", a woman and a man modelling t-shirts entitled "Sports Tournament model", Waitaki jubilee, re-opening of the information centre at Wairakei, administrative staff outside the administration block at Tokaanu, construction of Waihihonu, Wahianoa, Whakapapa, Wanganui, Tarawera, and Okupata intakes in the Tongariro power scheme development, hostel staff and the hostel cat at Tokaanu, the information centre at Turangi, staff of the Landscape section at Head Office, and the opening of the Ohau B power station. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 33 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding black and white photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating black and white prints ('B&W').
Album of black and white proof sheets numbered 859-916
Date: May 1985-August 1987
From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1218
Description: Black and white proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other electric power production related images. Images include staff photographs (labelled "personnel photos" and "management photos" but otherwise unidentified), photographs of named staff Keith Grantham, John O'Sullivan and Mike Turner, the opening of the Ohau C power station by the Minister of Science and Development, Bob Tizard, the Director-General signing the contract for a history of the Electricity Division with writers Peter O'Connor and Mary Ronnie in 1985, system control Wellington and Islington, Computer Services staff, celebration of the centenary of electric lighting in Reefton, the Huntly Power Station sign (showing ownership by Electricorp), an Electricorp sign in Napier, Chief Executive Roderick Deane, railways transformers, Electricorp and CoalCorp internal building signs, offices in Hamilton and Auckland, an induction trip to the Mangahao power scheme, and L. Lobbs retirement farewell. Sheet 888 is labelled "Ladarello" but has no content. Sheet 909 is labelled "Huntly 1000mw [megawatts] cabaret" but has no content and a note states that it was "sent to Huntly 28/9/87". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 58 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding black and white photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating black and white prints ('B&W').
Album of colour proof sheets numbered 102-151
Date: September 1970-March 1971
From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1221
Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Images include Auckland and Palmerston North Training Schools, a Careers Week display in Lower Hutt, fishing and boating on Lakes Arapuni and Waipapa, and on the Waikato River near Meremere, and several aerial views. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 50 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').
Album of colour proof sheets numbered 770-819
Date: March-November 1983
From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1234
Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Includes aerial views of the Tongariro power scheme and surrounding countryside including various intake canals, images of the presentation of the New Zealand Electricity Department Merlin-Gerin Rugby Trophy, lucerne and timber drying at Broadlands near the Ohaaki power station development (using geothermal heat), steam generation for timber drying at the Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill in Kawerau, and greenhouses at Kawerau using geothermal heat. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 50 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').
Album of colour proof sheets numbered 820-869
Date: November 1983-February 1984
From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1235
Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Includes aerial views. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 50 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').
Album of colour proof sheets numbered 930-979
Date: June 1984-December 1985
From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1237
Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Includes images of the control room at Twizel, small aircraft belonging to Newman's Air at Aoraki/Mount Cook, scenery near Twizel, and some aerial views. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 50 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').
Album of colour proof sheets numbered 980-1030
Date: July 1985-April 1986
From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1238
Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Includes images of various spillways, canals, and tunnels in the Tongariro power scheme, views of the Southern Alps, and portraits of Kevin McCool, General Manager of the Electricity Division of the Ministry of Energy. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 51 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').
Album of colour proof sheets numbered 1189-1232
Date: December 1988-July 1989
From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-1242
Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Includes images of Christchurch Transpower personnel, Ohakuri village, and staff at Tuai power station, and fish-eye lens views of Wellington from Rutherford House. Many are aerial views. Sheet 1185 has the date "1982" on the identification sheet; however, the date on the back of the contact sheet is 1989. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 50 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').
New Zealand Workers Union - Records
Date: 1967
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: 94-106-33/08
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:A pretty problem! [Hydro development versus tourism] 28...
Date: 1964
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-133-292
Description: Five vignettes. In the first Cabinet Minister Dean Jack Eyre predicts tourism will be the highest earner of overseas income within a year. In the second the Minister of Electicity, Tom Shand, argues the need for the Tongariro hydroelectric power scheme. In the third a beauty spot is being devestated by a bulldozer for a power scheme watched by an unhappy tourist. In the fourth a tourist is all wrapped up against the cold of power cuts. Tourists will not come if tourist spots are ruined but they also will not come if there are power cuts. In the fifth vignette the two Cabinet Ministers are duelling - 'The only solution seems to be to let the Ministers settle it on a winner-take-all basis'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil 280 x 380 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989: Tongariro power project. 1966.
Date: 1966
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-133-510
Description: A clipping reports that the project may be put in mothballs, pending negotiation of the employment of Italian labour. The arm of the FOL turns out the light on the consumer and the taxpayer, but the brighter outlook is that the government just happens to have a large quantity of mothballs on hand. Pictured are large Ministry of Works trucks laden with mothballs coming from the direction of the Maraetai II power project. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, letratone and pencil, 288 x 396 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
Photograph of Norman Kirk taken during a visit to the Tongariro Power Development - Pho...
Date: [1970s]
From: Amalgamated Workers' Union of New Zealand :Photographs
By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works
Reference: PAColl-D-0491
Description: Photograph of Rt Hon Norman Kirk wearing a hard hat taken during an official visit to the Tongariro Power Project, ca 1970s Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 505 x 405 mm