Hydroelectric power plants - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: 23 July 1922

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-001-112

Description: Inlet end of tunnel no 1, Mangahao hydroelectric power project. Photographed by George Leslie Adkin 23 July 1922. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 112. Inlet end of tunnel No 1 showing the double entrance. The portal on the left will be the future permenent intake, that on the right being a temporary one to facilitate the removal of the truck loads of spoil from the working face of the tunnel. 23.7.1922 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 9 x 15.5 cm, mounted on album page.

Date: 1922, 1923

By: Cooper, Enid, active 1974?; Cooper, Thornhill, active 1974

Reference: PA1-o-108

Description: Shows construction of powerhouse, and dams at Mangahao and Arapeti Other Titles - Cooper album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 22x17 cm red buckram covers entitled "From my camera" in green slip-case

Date: 1920-1929

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-3

Description: Photographs of trips taken in the countryside, of bridges, rivers, streams, waterfalls, native forest, mountains, coastal scenery and other scenic views. There are pictures of cars and one of a motorcycle with side car. There are prints of two fly fishermen displaying their catch in a net and of a man holding up a large eel. Others show yachts in sail, and men and boys in yachts; adult fun sports at a group outing identified in PAColl-6712-2 as being the "optic championships". Another group are shown playing cricket in the grounds of Days Bay House. There is also a single print of a hunter showing his bag of wild game birds. Animals are represented by cattle and horses, one of the latter associated with two men and a wagon-full of freshly harvested hay, another is harnessed to a coach parked beside a stationary train. A sequence of prints records the dams and lakes of the newly completed Mangahao Hydro in the hills inland from Shannon. Three prints show a ship grounded in coastal shallows. There are portrait and group photographs of people, including children, and one print of a children's party. Several show picnic groups.

Date: 1921-1922

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-001

Description: Album (2), 1921-1922, Mangahao Hydro-electric scheme, images 59-122. Album showing the development of construction of the Mangahao Hydro-electric power scheme, with all aspects, including service roads, the sawmill supplying timber for buildings and other requirements of construction, work camps, the tunnels for water pipes. See also Album (1) 1916-1921, Tararuas & Mangahao Hydro-Electric construction, images 1-58 (at PA1-o-009).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1957-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over the Mangahao Power Station centre foreground, pipelines coming down from the hills on the right. Houses and workmen's huts on the left. Power lines from the hydro station up hill in centre and across hills to the left. Rugged hills in the background, some bush-clad. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Mangahoe Works [i.e. Mangahao Works]. Mangahoe Electric Power Station [i.e. Mangahao Electric Power Station]. No. 718. New Zealand; Marginal notes on negative - Mangahoe [i.e. Mangahao] Power Station. 1 oils. 1 B&W Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 104.0 cm

Date: 1924-1930

From: Hutson, Agnes, 1908?-1998 : Albums of guiding activities and events in the Wellington Region

Reference: PA1-o-996

Description: Photographs of guides at annual camps at Porirua (1925/26 and 1927/28), Mangaroa (1926/27), Mount Bruce (1928/29), and the Dominion camp in January 1930 which was the first national jamboree of the Girl Guides Association. One of the events associated with this was a luncheon in the Dominion Farmers Institute Building, Wellington. There are groups photographed at the Guiders training week Chilton House, September 1929, and a trip to the newly completed Mangahao hydro project, circa 1929. Many of the people are indentified. Photographer(s) unidentified, possibly Agnes Hutson. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1917-1924

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-127

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; includes papers relating to power development, flooding of the Waikanae River, the Wellington-Palmerston North main road over the Paekakariki Hill, war memorial proposal, Rimutaka proposals, sawmilling proposition for Akatarawa, acquisition of Barton's Bush by the Government, and discharged soldiers and land at Te Horo Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 6 January 1918

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-008-136

Description: View of the lower valley of the Arapeti Stream, the site of the storage dam for the Mangahao Hydro. Photographed by George Leslie Adkin 6 January 1918. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 136. The basin-like lower valley of the Arapeti Stream - the site of one of the proposed storage reservoirs of the Mangahao Hydro-electric Scheme. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10.5 x 15.2 cm, mounted on album page.

Date: 1st January 1925

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1422-1/4-G

Description: The pipe line above Mangahao hydro-electric power station, photographed by Albert Percy Godber, on 1st January 1925. An original print from this negative is in Godber album (Vol 109, p 219) PA1-q-102 Inscriptions: Album page - Mangahao Power Station. The pipe line. 1/1/25. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1924

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1738-1/2-G

Description: View of penstocks at Mangahao Hydro. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 79. Mangahao Hydro (7). Mangahao. 1924) There are six images of the Mangahao Power Station taken in 1924, from APG-1737-1/2 to APG-1742-1/2. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1924

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1737-1/2-G

Description: Interior view of the control room at the Mangahao Power Station. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 79. Mangahao Hydro (7). Mangahao. 1924) There are six images of the Mangahao Power Station taken in 1924, from APG-1737-1/2 to APG-1742-1/2. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 27 August 1922

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-001-122

Description: Excavation for surge chamber, Mangahao Hydro project. Photographed by George Leslie Adkins 27 August 1922. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 122. The excavation for the surge chamber completed and ready for the lining of concrete. The pit is 75ft in diameter at the top and 75ft deep. 27.8.22 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11 x 15.6 cm, mounted on album page.

Date: 1st January 1925

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1425-1/4-G

Description: Mangahao hydro-electric power station showing a view of the switchboard room, photographed by Albert Percy Godber in January 1925. An original print from this negative is in Godber album PA1-q-102 (Vol. 109, page 219) Inscriptions: Album page - Mangahao Power Station. View in the switchboard room. 1/1/25. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1st January 1925

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1421-1/4-G

Description: Mangahao hydroelectric power station, photographed by Albert Percy Godber, on 1st January 1925. An original print from this negative is in Godber album (Vol 109, p 220) PA1-q-102 Inscriptions: Album page - Mangahao Power Station. Power house shewing pipe line. 1/1/25. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1924

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1740-1/2-G

Description: Interior view of the turbine room at the Mangahao Power Station. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 79. Mangahao Hydro (7). Mangahao. 1924) There are six images of the Mangahao Power Station taken in 1924, from APG-1737-1/2 to APG-1742-1/2. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1924

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1741-1/2-G

Description: Interior view of the turbine room at the Mangahao Power Station, showing a Pelton Wheel turbine. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 79. Mangahao Hydro (7). Mangahao. 1924) There are six images of the Mangahao Power Station taken in 1924, from APG-1737-1/2 to APG-1742-1/2. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1st January 1925

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1424-1/4-G

Description: Mangahao hydro-electric power station showing the dynamo room and generators, photographed by Albert Percy Godber in January 1925. An original print from this negative is in Godber album PA1-q-102 (Vol. 109, page 219) Inscriptions: Album page - Mangahao Power Station. Dynamo room and generators. 1/1/25. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1965

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Energy-Hydro Electricity-Tongariro Hydro Scheme-01

Description: View down into a steep valley and the Moawhango River, now the site of the upper area of the Moawhango dam. On one side of the valley, and spanning the river can be seen walkways where men from the Ministry of Works used drilling equipment to test the rock structures of the site. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1965. This image was published in the Evening Post newspaper on the 8th of October, 1965 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 5 September 1921

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-001-78

Description: Gang of workmen excavating a site for the Mangaore power house. Photographed by George Leslie Adkin 5 September 1921. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 78. A gang of workmen excavating at Mangatangi-Mangaore junction to prepare a site for the permanent hydro-electric powerhouse. Lower end of the pipe-line bed in the background. 5.9.21 The Mangaore power house was driven by water from the Mangahao dam. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11 x 15 cm, mounted on album page.