Fires - New Zealand - Waikato Region

Date: 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-226

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1949-1950. Sculptures exhibited at Royal Society of British Artists Winter Exhibition; block of flats in Finchley Road, London used as secret headquarters of the Rear-Admiral of the Coastal Forces; Peter Scott, painter of wild birds and director of Severn Wild Fowl Trust, England; Faberge ornaments made for Russian royal family on display in London; Anderson family shearing-gang, Rangitoto district near Te Kuiti; goat herd belonging to A Miller of Riccarton (reputed to be only goats in NZ milked by machine). Rev B O Plumb of St Mark's, Opawa, Christchurch; Mr & Mrs E V Gaw who built their own house at Spencer Park; Ted Scott (journalist & boxer) with his mother and sister Mrs A Francis; L M S Bruce (formerly headmaster of the Cathedral and John Connon School for Boys, Bombay) on arrival in NZ with his wife; John Barnicoat of Wellington on return from trip to Tibet; Lyndhurst School; aftermath of fire which destroyed the Lake Hotel, Taupo on 29 Dec 1949; Waitotara Valley where Oswald Palmer crashed his Tiger Moth. Official function for Hon E B Corbett, Minister of Native Affairs, at Puniho Pa; Gower Wingfield of Kaeo, Northland and wife and daughter Myra on his return from Cook Islands where he was formerly the official dentist; Royal Artilleryman Major N W Routledge with his wife (formerly Miss P Grigg) and two children on arrival in Wellington to take up an appointment with NZ Army; Rev A P Stanley at St Columba's Church, Point Howard; old kerosene lamp post in garden of E J Thompson, Arrowtown. Mr & Mrs John Ellis and family on arrival in NZ; wedding group (Mr & Mrs Claude Flemming); Judge J S Blake-Reed; Sam & Ron Sinclair (Sanders Cup veterans); Peter Wilkinson of City of Christchurch Pipe Band; 1887 Te Aute scholars (T W Wills, Toito Poata, P H McDonald); William Williams; Samuel Williams; Harry G Wright of Central Otago (aged 90); girls who attended the Junior Red Cross camp held at Wellington; custom made car built by W Hulme Kerr; RNZAF training centre at Tairei air station near Dunedin; group photo of officers of No 1 Elementary Flying Training School, Taieri aerodrome, Mosgiel. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: Between 1958 and 1983

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8850

Description: These slides are entitled "Rozel. Illustrations for journal". They include views of eucalyptus trees, lemon and grapfruit trees, their dog "Wee Dug", their 1951 Austin A40 car, a clematis ("Travellers' Joy") and the house. One picture taken in Cambridge shows an old red pillar box; smoke over a swamp fire in the distance; the Rukuhia Swamp; clouds over Pirongia; Waikato landscape and clouds; a young boy with a prize-winning calf; Horneman's farm at Ohaupo; a group identified only by Christian name ( Percy, Lindley, Joyce and Mr Spencer at Rozel), Gubbins oaks at Rozel, and oak blossom. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1920 - 1940

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-753-009

Description: View across Lake Taupo towards Tauhara Mount, with smoke billowing into the sky Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 180 x 130 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1940

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-753-010

Description: View across Lake Taupo towards Tauhara Mount, with smoke billowing into the sky Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 180 x 130 mm.

Date: 2008

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0006033

Description: Shows a solitary wreath lying outside a still smouldering building. Beneath the wreath is a card reading 'Tamahere, April 2008'. Refers to the Icepak coolstore fire in Tamahere over the weekend of 6th April, 2008. A firefighter, Derek Lovell, was killed and several others seriously hurt in the fire. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).