Otira Hotel

Date: 1887

From: Alexander, J, b 1863? :Photograph album of English yachts on the Solent, and other photographs

By: Jackson, A G (Mr), active 1887; West & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-010

Description: Album appears to have been owned by J Alexander as it came into the possession of his son F R Alexander. Photographs taken by A G Jackson (and possibly also by his companions on the trip - H.A.F Jackson and J Alexander) in 1887 on a penny-farthing cycle trip from Christchurch to the West Coast, have been added to an existing album of commercial photographs of yachting on The Solent, England. Most of the yachts are named. Named yachts include 'Queen Eleanor', 'Silver Star', 'Raven', 'Bonina', 'Buttercup', 'Mavourneen', 'Nonparelle', and 'Vanessa'. Other Titles - Instantaneous photographs: Yachting Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 370 x 260 mm grey buckram, with black spine and corners, with title 'Instantaneous photographs Yachting' embossed on cover, in phase box.

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1110-F

Description: Panoramic view of Otira Village with rows of workmen's cottages, a wide riverbed in the foreground, two-storeyed hotel centre left, and the Otira Power House on the left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Otira Village N.Z.; Photographer's title on negative - Otira Village. No. 489 New Zealand 1924 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.5 cm

Date: 1930-1950

From: Elworthy, A C :Photographs of early aviation and mountaineering

By: Elworthy, Anthony C, active 1984; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-0075-1

Description: Photographs, taken by Anthony C Elworthy, chiefly of aeroplanes and general aviation in the 1930s, especially of a De Havilland Dragonfly but also including images of a Pan Am Boeing Clipper, Gloster Meteor, Hawker Tomtit, Bristol FZB and of a Percival Vega Gull. Also includes 1 photograph of aeroplanes at the Canterbury Aero Club. Also includes images of aeroplanes at Nandi, Fiji, circa 1940.. Also, photographs of World War II shipping, including prints relating to the ships Rangatira, Awatea, Aquitane and Aquitania. Also includes photographs of the Maadi Tank School during World War II and 1 of 5 members of 26 Battalion, D Company at Alamein in July 1942. Also, photographs of tame deer in Haast; mountaineering (including images of the Elworthy family) and aerial photographs of Sydney Harbour. Also, 7 photographs by James Ring, including 1 of Jacksons Accomodation House on Christchurch Road, 1 of Archer's punt on the Inangahua River, 1 of Hawkes Crag, 1 of sluicing at Humphrey's Gully, 1 of the Otira Accomodation House, 1 of the Otira Hotel, and 1 titled `Lake Pearson, Looking toward Cragieburn'. Quantity: 160 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1920s]

From: Searell, Pamela :Photographs owned by Miss Ruby Victoria Jackson

By: Jackson, Ruby Victoria, 1888-1980; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA1-o-459

Description: Snapshots of family and friends associated with Ruby Victoria Jackson, taken by unidentified photographers. Many of the people shown are unidentified, or only identified with Christian names. Many of the images relate to sheep stations won by three Jackson brothers in the soldiers' ballot after the first World War, 1914-1918. They owned Netherwood (originally by a Johnson who married a Jackson), Te Arowhenua and Berridale in the Waihopai Valley; also Leatham and The Branch Station on the Branch River. Other sections of the album relate to holidays, including trips to the West Coast, and to the North Island. Several views of Wellington are night scenes. The funeral ceremonies for Miss Jackson's father, Walter James Jackson, are shown in a number of photographs; and the last sequence shows Chinese friends probably associated with Miss Jackson's links with the Chinese Anglican Mission; and the visit of Dr Toyohiko Kagawa to New Zealand in 1935. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cloth cover, entitled "The Lambton album" (with R.V. Jackson in ink over the title); 22.0 x 32.5 cm

From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-044195-F

Description: Scene at the foot of the Otira Gorge including the Otira Hotel, a small crowd of people and two horse drawn carriages Original print in ex file print sequence in Photographic Archive Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1889

From: Alexander, J, b 1863? :Photograph album of English yachts on the Solent, and other photographs

Reference: PA1-f-010-05-2

Description: George Dyer's Otira Hotel, with a group of people standing on and around the verandah. Two dogs and a small boy are present. One man is tipping the contents of a bottle into a glass. The words "Otira Hotel" and "George Dyer" are on the front of the building. Taken by A G Jackson in 1889. This was originally dated 1887, but the hotel was not completed until 1888. An article in the Kumara Times 25 Feb 1889 records a second bicycle trip by J Alexander in 1889 where they stayed overnight at Dyers, and it is likely that this photograph was taken then. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).