Fishing boats - New Zealand - Auckland 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: 1886 - 1887

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-026

Description: A view across a bay, probably part of the Waitemata Harbour, with mangroves growing, a large cabbage tree and flax in the foreground, and a jetty and yacht across the bay to the right. Low hills in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977. Daughter of the artist

Date: [ca 1939-1960]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-200

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, late 1930s-1960 Aerial photographs - Gisborne; Christchurch looking east towards Brighton and with the Botanic Gardens and Hagley Park in the foreground; Christchurch at night; Auckland city centre and Harbour Bridge; Nelson city; Palmerston North; Lake Brunner and waterfall; Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island; New Plymouth and Mount Taranaki from above Pukekura Park; Napier looking south-west; Wellington looking north from above Newtown; Wellington from above Wadestown looking south, showing American supply ships at Aotea Quay, 1947. Government Building at Centennial Exhibition, 1939; ferries tied up in St Mary's Bay with Auckland Harbour Bridge in distance (entitled `The old and the new'); Auckland fishing fleet; seating at High Street end of Albert Park, Auckland; lower Queen Street, Auckland; statue in The Square, Palmerston North; Cape Brett lighthouse; tourist and guide at Dragon's Mouth, Wairakei, 1938; cricket at Auckland Domain; Ocean Beach, Mount Maunganui from The Mount; Orewa; Waiwera; car ferry at Opua; Waitara, 1930s. Arthur's Pass Alpine Village; Lake Te Anau; The Chasm, Fiordland National Park; baches north of Whangarei; boats in tidal estuary at Ngunguru, 1961; Tutukaka, 1961; rural scenes in Makarakeke district, south-east of Waipukurau, 1956; rural scene north of Eketahuna, 1956; Te Whiti River, 1957; farm land in Takapau district; rural scene at Otane, 1957. Woman skier at Coronet Peak; apple packing, Hastings, 1948; official party on the stage at RSA Ball, Blenheim, 1951; Waitomo Caves Hotel; Te Aroha Government Tourist Gardens with game of lawn bowls in progress, 1959; group photograph taken at opening of the Kahungunu War Memorial building at Nuhaka, Sep 1949. Several photographs taken during the construction of the Maori memorial on One Tree Hill, Auckland, 1939-1940; electric car manufactured in England in 1935; Field Marshal Montgomery's visit to Wellington, Jul 1947. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1887

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-029

Description: A view across the harbour with large pohutukawa trees on the foreshore, a boat, and Rangitoto in the background with smoke rising from a fire close to its shoreline on the right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 350 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977

Date: 2002

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-002-096

Description: The dangers of fishing under the Auckland airport flight path where parts of aeroplanes have recently fallen off. Three fishermen in a boat wearing crash helmets are looking upwards with worried expressions. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: [ca 1940]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: PAColl-3060-067

Description: Seine fishing in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland. Shows a fisherman inspecting a net of caught fish, hanging from the side of a fishing boat. Photograph taken circa 1940 by a Weekly News photographer. Publication note - Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. `Making New Zealand' 2(18): 18 Inscriptions: Verso - centre - From / The "N.Z. Herald" / Auckland, N.Z.; Verso - top centre - Photo R-41 / Reduce: 4 3/8" x 5 1/8"; Verso - centre - Seine fishing / Hauraki Gulf / Auckland; Verso - centre - [Original caption]: Above - A fisherman inspecting a net of fish caught in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland; Verso - bottom left - XVIII Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.6 x 20.5 cm Provenance: Photograph from the New Zealand Herald for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40).

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

Reference: APG-0427-1/2-G

Description: View of fishing boats and dinghies moored in Kaipara Harbour, with fishing nets drying on frames on the wharf. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Inscriptions: Album page - Heretaunga Boating Club's shed. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1971

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0537

Description: Seven negative frames show spectators at a wrestling match at the YMCA Hall, Pitt Street, central Auckland, in 1971. Five negative frames show men unloading a fishing boat at Freemans Bay, Auckland, in 1971. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film