Rapids - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: 1875 - 1879

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

Reference: E-207-q-016

Description: Engraving of the rapids on the Waipori River with rugged cliffs on the right and tree covered slope on the opposite side of the gorge. Other Titles - Rapids of the Waipori River Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Artist's initials - E.L. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 223 x 163 mm

Date: 1871

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-051

Description: Shows the rapids leaving the lake, at Frankton, the outlet of the Kawerau River. There is a three-storey mill building with a waterwheel attached on the water's edge at the right. In the left background, on the other side of the rapids is a group of farm buildings, belonging to the farm owned by W G Rees between 1862 and 1867. The mill at right has been identified as Robertson and Hallenstein's Brunswick mill (see F G W Miller's "Golden days of Lake Country" (Christchurch, 1961), page 112 (ATL 993.1 MILL). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Compare a similar view by William Fox, WC-327, titled by Fox 'Mr Rees' Station, Lake Wakatipu'. It has been dated by the Library 1864, when Fox is known to have visited Lake Wakatipu. The mill building is not yet present in Fox's view. Compare also a very similar view by William Mathew Hodgkins, E-016-4-027/028 [Mill at Frankton, Kawarau Falls, 1870] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 305 x 360 mm

Date: 1870

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-027/028

Description: A view from below the falls with the mill building in the right foreground, a farmhouse and other buildings to the left, with Lake Wakatipu and surrounding mountains beyond The property at the Falls was that of W G Rees until 1867, slightly before the assumed date of this drawing. The flour mill at right was Robertson and Hallenstein's Brunswick Mill. Supplied title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 88 x 153 mm.

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-327

Description: Shows sheep station of William Gilbert Rees at Lake Wakatipu outlet of Kawarau River, with mountains beyond. The station belonged to Rees between 1862 and 1867. Rees was the first Pakeha landowner on this site. He called it Frankton after his wife, Frances Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - title inscribed in ink. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white over pencil 247 x 345 mm