Ross

Date: Mar-May 1881

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-03/3

Description: Identified correspondents entered in Name field below; also includes coded telegram from Sir John Hall re Parihaka, interview with Te Whiti Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes printed map of Mikonui Water Race near the settlement of Ross [Totara District]

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1910s?]

By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: PA1-o-473

Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by various photographers, mostly unidentified, circa 1910s Other Titles - New Zealand photographs - South Island Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "New Zealand photographs. South Island" in gold lettering; 26 x 32 cm

Date: 1993

By: Thackrah, A (Mrs), active 1993

Reference: MS-Papers-4915

Description: History of the Traversi family and in particular the life of of Thackrah's grandfather, Antonio Thomas Traversi and father, Antonio Traversi. Compiled by Thackrah from various sources, including her father's letters and memoirs, the history traces A T Traversi's move from Italy to the gold fields in Australia and then to the gold fields in Ross where he became a hotel owner and includes her father's memories of growing up in Ross. Also includes mention of Tackrah's grandmother Susan Gilheaney and photocopies of a number of family photographs. Source of title - supplied title Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-0695 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (25 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Mrs A Thackrah, Australia, 1993

Date: 1883

From: Monckton, Francis Alexander, 1835-1910 : Papers

Reference: MSO-Papers-0429-22

Description: Illuminated address presented to Monckton by Ross Hospital Committee, Westland, 1883 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1866-1872

By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882

Reference: PAColl-7634

Description: A flume bridge for gold mining near Ross ca 1870s; the first bridge between Blaketown and Greymouth ca 1870s; and Charleston ca 1866-1872. Photographer was John Tensfeld and the images were captioned West Coast Album in the bottom left of each image. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-008043, 008047 and 008048 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1924

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-100

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-208

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: [196-]

From: Dollimore, Edward Stewart, 1904-1973 : Papers

Reference: 83-145-114

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: PAColl-7479

Description: Francis Joseph (sic) Glacier near the outlet of the Wai-au River; tabular flume, Donolly Creek, Ross height 98 feet length 800 feet - a flume supported on poles above the creek; Aylmer Street, Ross showing the Junction Hotel, Dunedin Hotel, and Dr Bush's consulting rooms in front of the Morning Star mining claim; the viaduct from the creek at Ross height 167 feet; Bond Street, Ross with a church and what may be the Star Bakery in the foreground and along the street from the left, Provincial Hotel, J Manson & Co, Shamrock Hotel, Gay and Green Hall of Commerce, Bank of New Zealand(?), Post Office, Post Office Hotel, a wholesale wine merchants and the Camp Hotel; and the few buildings of Lagoon Town between Ross and Hokitika. Photographer unidentified. From the same unidentified album Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004615, 004646 to 004649 and 004654 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: Between 1868 and 1890

By: Larkworthy, Falconer, 1833-1928; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-140

Description: Photograph album of New Zealand scenes The first sequence contains views of the road from Christchurch to the West Coast, taken by Daniel Mundy in February 1868. Another group are of further scenes in the South Island taken by the Burton Brothers around the Dunedin area. There are several views of Scotland and England, including one of the Brendon Hill Incline, an iron-mining area in Exmoor, and a view of the Larkworthy family castle in Aberdeenshire (name of the castle not clear in album). Later views in the album are taken by unidentified photographers, and include scenes of the Franz Josef Glacier, with the Waiho River; sluicing for gold at Black Gully; a tubular flume at Donnellys Creek; the Totara Ferry; viaduct at Jones' Creek; bush at Donoghues; and views of Ross and Hokitika. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Larkworthy album Relationship complexity - See also qMS-1129-1132 (donated at the same time) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, entitled `Scrap book'; 32.5 x 27.0 cm Provenance: Donated by Mrs W M Lowry and Mrs V M Matthews, England, 1956

Date: 1899, n d

By: Traversi, Antonio Thomas, 1871-1960

Reference: MS-Papers-0695

Description: Reminiscences of life in Ross, Wellington and Australia by A T Traversi. Also some biographical details and three letters from Mrs B Hirter to Traversi describing life in Ross (1899). Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Letter from donor to library re donation Quantity: 1 folder(s) (20 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and holograph (photocopies) Provenance: Donor is daughter of Traversi

Date: 1975

By: Hokitika guardian (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-HOTELS-Westland-1975-01

Description: Chart shows lists of hotelkeepers in several West Coast towns, for the years 1866-67, 1929 and 1975. The towns included at Hokitika, Grey Valley, Greymouth, Kaniere, Kaniere Forks, Coast Road, Taramakau, Kumara, Lake Mahinapua, Piper's Flat, Stafford Town, 6 Mile Beach, Ballarat Hill, Scandinavian Hill, Waimea, Ross, Paroa, Arahura River, Woodstock, South Westland, Humphries, Ho Ho, Kokatahi. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on sheet 620 x 327 mm. Provenance: Donated by the J C Beaglehole Room, Victoria University of Wellington, in 2015.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2254-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over the town of Ross in South Westland in a flat valley. Sea in the distance on the far left, hills on the right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Ross. No. 483. Sth Westland, N.Z.; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Ross #2; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 100.0 cm

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1959-2007

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1868-1972

From: Heinz, William Frederick, 1899-1976: Photographs and negatives of gold mining and other facets of the West Coast

Reference: PAColl-0372-2

Description: Comprises photographs of group portraits, townships, gold mines and people mining for gold, public and private residences, landscape paintings, drawings and several unidentified grounded shipping vessels. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 93 b&w copy photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and mounted newspaper illustrations.

Date: 1885-1936

From: Heinz, William Frederick, 1899-1976: Photographs and negatives of gold mining and other facets of the West Coast

Reference: PAColl-0372-1

Description: Comprises photographs of mountain ranges, children, individuals panning for gold, public and private residences, automobiles, and the shipping vessel Able Tasman grounded on Greymouth beach. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and postcards.

Date: 1980-1983

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to marked walks, trails, tracks and walkways]

By: New Zealand. Department of Conservation

Reference: Eph-A-WALKS-Westland-1980/1983

Description: Pamphlets for walks: Alex Knob Track [ca 1982] Brunner industrial site (1983) Canavans Knob rainforest walk [Franz Josef, ca 1982] Cape Foulwind Walkway [ca 1983] (2 copies) Charming Creek walkway [ca 1983] Cone Rock Chalet Lookout [Franz Josef, ca 1982] Croesus and Moonlight walks, Paparoa Forest. 1982 Dun Mountain walkway [1980s] Gillespies Beach seal colony [ca 1982] Lake Gault, Waikukupa Plateau [Franz Josef, ca 1982] Lake Mapourika, Lake Wahapo [Franz Josef, ca 1982] Lake Wombat Track [Franz Josef, ca 1982] Lyell Walkway, Buller Gorge (1981, 1983) Mahinapua Section [ca 1982] Mahinapua Walkway. 1982 (2 copies) Minnehaha Walk [Franz Josef, ca 1982] Mount Fox track [ca 1982] Ngai Tahu track [ca 1982] North Westland walks. 1980 Okarito walks (1979 -1980 reprint, 1983 - 2 copies of 1983) Paparoa National Park [1980s - 2 different] Peters Pool, Douglas Loop Walk [Franz Josef, ca 1982] Point Elizabeth Walkway [1980s] Rahu Saddle tracks [1980s?] Ross Historic Goldfields Walkway - Jones Flat walk. 1981 (2 copies blue, 1 copy red) Ross Historic Goldfields Walkway - Water race walk. 1981 (2 copies blue, 1 copy red) Sentinel Rock [Franz Josef, ca 1982] Truman Track [1980s?] Pink folded leaflet Truman Track and Te Miko coastline [1980s?] Walks in Murray Creek Goldfield. 1981 Woods Creek track. 1983 (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1956

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: 1/4-129886-F

Description: Related index card reads: Buildings. Westland. Borough Council Building Ross, May 1956. [Stamp no.] 260. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 60mm single frame film negative