Fires - New Zealand - Hawke's Bay Region

Date: [1877-1917], nd

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-120

Description: Includes letter from Rev F W Martin re prayer and Hawke's Bay matters and from Major Gerald B Carter with MEF writing from the Dardanelles; and letters from Jessie; WBP of London; part of letter written from `Thorthowald', Napier; and part of one from South Makaretu re fires causing major problems for bush settlers. An undated letter written from Crail has attached a dance programme card for Meta Johnston, Okawa (6 Oct 1905). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1935], 1945

From: Fell, Howard Barraclough, 1917-1994: Papers relating to Francis Hutchinson

Reference: MSX-4553

Description: Essays by Hutchinson, who described himself as a NZ naturalist, and edited by Fell. Topics include botany, ornithology, marine and freshwater biology, farming, water life, the Hawke's Bay earthquake and other aspects of natural history. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [193-?]

From: Kennett, Robert, 1913-2007 : Photographs, including images taken after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake

By: Thorpe Studio; Tustin, Mabel, 1884-1967

Reference: PAColl-9966

Description: Photographs taken circa 1930s including nine taken by 'Sorrell Photo' (either Charles Sorrell or Percy C Sorrell) showing the effects of 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, chiefly on buildings in Napier, but also two at Port Ahuriri. Also one taken after the fire, and one of a new shopping area at Clive Square, featuring 'Thorp's for Shoes', built after the quake. Also includes a range of other photographs, some probably taken by Robert Kennett, including one of the 'Southern Cross' aeroplane; a crowd at an [accident ?]; [vines ?] at Moerewa, Bay of Islands, and two unidentified wedding portraits, one taken by Mabel Tustin of Wellington, the other by Thorpe Studio of Pukekohe, Auckland. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) on mounts. 16 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1930s, 1970s]

Reference: PAColl-9455

Description: Comprises: Set of souvenir photographs of the effects of Napier earthquake and original envelope Photographs of a capping parade in Hamiton, taken ca 1940s by Candid Camera Studios (Hamilton) Ltd Photograph of the 'Rangatira' on floating dock Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera (print envelope). Transfers: Collection as a whole received by Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from here - To Manuscripts & Archives - Fireman's certificate and Coal Mine's Act eyesight certificate; issued to Thomas Marsh (MS-Papers-9339) - To Book Collections - Four publications - Battle for Crete; Waikaremoana Power Scheme; Nursing! A service to the nation, and a career for you!; A seamen's pocket-book (1943).

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-073

Description: Shows the old Napier Post Office on the corner of Shakespeare Road and Browning Street, burning. An elderly lady at the right is helped by two fireman. A man in white uniform stands at the centre. Two prisoners clear rubble at the left. Notes on verso indicate that the elderly woman had walked down the hill past the fire and was dazed and blistered. The prisoners who helped were later released for this work, except for one who escaped and was later recaptured and returned to prison. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 120 x 177 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Kevin and Judy Percy in 2001. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 3 February 1931

From: Wood, Kitty :Photographs of Wairoa Falls, Whakarewarewa, and aftermath of Hawke's Bay Earthquake in Napier

Reference: PAColl-1009-02

Description: Street scene in Napier, immediately after the Hawke's Bay Earthquake of 3 February 1931, showing the Bank of New Zealand (right, behind lamp posts) on fire. Photograph taken by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 69 x 114 mm

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: D-011-022

Description: Shows the old Napier Post Office on the corner of Shakespeare Road and Browning Street, burning. An elderly woman at the right is helped by two fireman. A man in white uniform stands at the centre. Two prisoners clear rubble at the left. Notes accompanying the painting indicate that the elderly woman had walked down the hill past the fire and was dazed and blistered. The prisoners who helped were later released for this work, except for one who escaped and was later recaptured and returned to prison. Reproduced as a postcard (at E-592-073) Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 420 x 680 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-047309-G

Description: Fire damaged Napier Post Office after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1931

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 14

Reference: PAColl-6585-77

Description: Tennyson Street, Napier, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Smoke and fires are visible. Rubble and electrical wires have fallen on the road. The service station Alward & Bissell is on the right. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tennyson Street, Napier, N.Z., Ablaze Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.4 x 20.5 cm

Date: December 1886

From: Bushell, Lydia, fl 1984 :Photographs taken after the 1886 fire at the Daily Telegraph office, Napier, and Emerson Street Free School

Reference: PAColl-3266-1

Description: Site of the December 1866 fire at the Daily Telgraph office in Napier. Shows men standing alongside. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15 x 19.6 cm

Date: 1885

From: [Doubleday, William and John], fl 1880s :[Twenty-three watercolours of New Zealand and the Pacific. 1884-1885]

Reference: C-150-010

Description: Shows smoke over a hill or headland seen across the water. The hill shows denuded trees, as a result of the fire. There is a house at the foot of the hill beside two trees. The location may be Hawkes Bay. Other Titles - Hawkes Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 120 x 186 mm.

Date: 1931

From: Hurst, Arthur Bendigo, 1890-1964 : Photographs of Napier after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake

Reference: PAColl-8774-3-3

Description: Fire on Emerson Street, Napier, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Napier. Looks towards a smokey sky, along a rubble filled street lined with damaged buildings. Photograph taken by Arthur Bendigo Hurst. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6.8 x 8.7 cm

Date: ca 18 December 1886

From: Bushell, Lydia, fl 1984 :Photographs taken after the 1886 fire at the Daily Telegraph office, Napier, and Emerson Street Free School

Reference: PAColl-3266-2

Description: Scene after the December 1886 fire in Napier. Signs advertising the Criterion Hotel, and the Evening News, are visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.1 x 19.5 cm

Date: 1862

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-170-008

Description: Shows a view of Poukawa Lake in Central Hawkes Bay, set amongst hills. Two Maori are walking on the road, away from the viewer. One is a man wearing a Maori cloak and a white European hat; the other, a woman with a small child wrapped to her back in a blanket. The scene looks out from the dense bush of Te Aute Road across Lake Poukawa, towards the Kaokaoroa range of hills. Smoke from a fire can be seen beyond the shore opposite See also PUBL-0016-22 and E-297-004, depicting the same place, which is not Pukawa Bay on the shores of Lake Taupo A visual likeness to the chromolithograph (PUBL-0016-22) - the Maori man wearing the European hat and the woman carrying the child in a blanket on her back feature in both, and the setting is almost identical Other Titles - Poukawa Lake Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud / N Z 1862; mat verso - centre - Pukawa [sic] Lake from the Te Aute Road, Hawke's Bay / C D Barraud, 1862 [in ink - not artist's hand]; Backing board recto - top centre - [View] of Pukawa Lake from the Te Aute Road, Hawke's Bay / Right hand side of Door [in pencil - possibly in artist's hand] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with pencil and Chinese white, 320 x 470 mm (sight)

Date: 1931

Reference: Pan-3006-F

Description: Panoramic negative of Napier taken from Bluff Hill. Shows the effects of the Hawke's Bay earthquake of 3 Feb 1931 and subsequent fire. Taken by an unidentified photographer, possibly in March or April 1931. Photograph includes Masonic Bar building, rebuilt at the site of the Masonic Hotel after the earthquake. Recovery work is evident with some debris cleared and chimneys, visible in earlier photographic records of the destruction, demolished. The ruins of St Paul's Presbyterian Church are in the bottom right of the image (a tent is erected in the grounds) and the ruins of Waiapu Cathedral of St John the Baptist are on the bottom left. Other buildings include Public Trust Building, E & D Building, Dalgety's, Bigins Central Hotel, H. B. Motor Co Limited, Hawke's Bay Tribune, Municipal Library, and Hannah's Buildings. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - "NAPIER New Zealand" 1931 (AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE) No. 1. See R. J. Thomson's panoramic images at Library reference number PA6-277, PA6-544, PA6-545, and PAColl-D-819-2 for views of the earthquake damage from a similar vantage point (at an earlier time). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) panorama. Physical Description: Panoramic film negative, 1.65 x 24.6 cm Provenance: The negative had been given to the donor's husband, Gus van der Mespel, in 1958 at a meeting of the Levin Film Society. The President of the Society had received the negative from a friend in Napier who had thought the item was moving film because of its size. The item was not suitable for the Society so it was offered to the members.

Date: 1931

From: Hurst, Arthur Bendigo, 1890-1964 : Photographs of Napier after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake

Reference: PAColl-8774-1-3

Description: City road scene with fire approaching, taken in Napier during the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Photograph taken by Arthur Bendigo Hurst. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Fire approaching. P O Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6.8 x 8.4 cm

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: A-354-019

Description: Shows a view looking along the street which has rubble down both sides. A tobacconist's pole has fallen down amongst the rubble at the right, and the electric wires have fallen since the scene in the picture at A-354-018. Five workers, their mouths covered by handkerchiefs, are trying to sort or clear the debris, while the fire rages in the buildings in the background. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 189 x 300 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 1

By: Hurst, Arthur Bendigo, 1890-1964

Reference: PAColl-5471-005

Description: Hastings Street, Napier, after the 1931 earthquake, showing damaged buildings, rubble and people standing on the road. Smoke comes from a fire which is being hosed down further along the street. In the distance, on the left, is The Clarendon Hotel. Taken by A B Hurst. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Napier quake Fire starts in Hastings St; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Protected A B Hurst Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: A-354-015

Description: Shows a view looking over a stretch of water at night, at the port buildings, some of which are burning. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 420 x 680 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: A-354-020

Description: Shows a smoking ruined three-storey building with only a small section at the right showing the original full height. One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Other Titles - Don McNab. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 192 x 306 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..