Military training camps - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: 1929-1948

By: Kendall, Leslie Frank, active 1920-1950

Reference: PA1-o-717

Description: Album compiled by Lesley Frank Kendall. The first section relates to tramping and the Mount Egmont Alpine Club. This includes - A large group of people on a mountain tramp ca 1929. Climbers on Mount Egmont. Building the first Syme Hut on Fantham's Peak, Mount Egmont, 1930. Military training camp at Long Bay. Emerson Street, Napier, in ruins, 1931. Two men on a motorcycle holiday. Group of photographs of the Wairarapa and Tararua Ranges. This includes - Men hunting in the Palliser Bay area. Views of the Rimutaka Range and road. Climbers on Mount Hector, Tararua Range, and at Kime and Field's huts. View of the Balclutha road bridge (built between 1933 and 1935). Kendall family members and a motor holiday in Central Otago ca 1936. This group also includes Queentown, the Buller Gorge, the DH 86 aircraft `Karoro,' and Canterbury. Views of Napier rebuilt. Sports matches include - New Zealand versus India, hockey, 1938. Otago versus Canterbury, rugby (probably Ranfurly Shield) 1938. Photograph group relating to a holiday in Auckland. Photograph group relating to a holiday at The Portage, Kenepuru Sound, Marlborough. Family gathering. Lesley Kendall in military uniform and Norma Clout on their wedding day, ca 1940. Group of photographs of unidentified children, people and places. Pig hunting trip, locality unidentified. Group of photographs of Lesley and Norma Kendall's first baby. Holiday on the South Island's West Coast. Wanganella on Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour, 1948. Views of Ohinemutu and Whakarewarewa. Group of photographs relating to the Royal New Zealand Air Force training school at Levin, Second World War. Family photographs, views of Wellington, the Putangirua Pinnacles Palliser Bay, and Picton. Groups of people on holiday at Paraparaumu, 1930s. Groups of people on a day out at Ohariu Valley, Wellington, 1930s. Wellington College Mod. VB class, 1929. Lesley Kendall with athletic trophies for the 1929-1930 season. Family photographs, 1920s-1940s. House on Maungakiekie Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland. Group photograph of a dance party, Mount Eden, Auckland, 1930s. Two photographs of New Zealand Air Force groups, Second World war. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1887

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: C-165-005

Description: Two panoramic views of the 1887 Easter encampments held at Auckland and on the Waiwhakaio River in Taranaki. The smaller of the two images, depicting the Auckland camp, shows two officers on a hillside in the foreground, surveying the camp in the distance. Various volunteer militia, grouped either in a mass or in rows, can be seen in the distance. Horses can be seen grazing in the middle ground. The Taranaki encampment shows a national gathering of Volunteer Forces returning from an exercise at Bell Block. Mount Taranaki and ranges are visible behind the encampment. Katere Ki Te Moana kainga (a pa on the top of Mangaone hill, New Plymouth) can be seen on the hill in the distance. Where the encampment is located has become the Rewarewa reserve. Lithograph of Taranaki camp taken from the 1887 oil painting by Edith Stanway Halcombe entitled 'Easter encampment, Waiw[h]akaiho, 1887', held at Puke Ariki in New Plymouth. Note that the lithograph is in reverse. It is not certain if Halcombe was the original artist of the Auckland encampment lithograph, though the styles are similar In addition to this lithograph, another was made slightly later by A D Willis, advertised for sale from 4 May 1887 ('Volunteer encampment, New Plymouth, 1887', held at Puke Ariki), and based on Edith Halcombe's painting. It is reasonable to suggest therefore that she did her own lithographic version for 'The Auckland weekly news' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 295 x 365 mm (horizontal) on sheet 453 x 310 mm (vertical) (sight)

Date: 1946

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-04321-F

Description: Aerial view of Seagrove Aerodrome and surrounding countryside and coast, Manukau Harbour, Auckland. Photograph taken in 1946 by Whites Aviation. Seagrove Aerodrome was part of an RNZAF flying training station (RNZAF Station Seagrove) established during the Second world War. The station and runways were built in 1942 and operated as a training station from that year to 1944. Seagrove was also a base for the American Marine Corps from May to June 1943. After the war the site reverted to farmland. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 10.7 x 13 cm