Trentham
Photograph album relating to service as a nurse during World War One
Date: [ca 1915 - ca 1917]
From: Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One
Reference: PA1-o-1913
Description: Album of photographs relating to the service of Lyna Todd Newell (later Dibble) as a nurse in Egypt and England during World War One, taken between circa 1915 and 1917. Newell, who features as a subject on some of the photographs, probably took many of the images in this collection. Includes captions, but most are too faint to read. - Features three pictures under the heading "1st Wedding in the NZ ANS [New Zealand Army Nursing Service] - Cairo", taken at the wedding of Nurse Mildred Jane Ellis and Lieutenant Alexander Edward Wrottesley Salt at Cairo, 21 May 1916. - Includes photographs taken in Egypt circa 1915-1916 showing gate of New Zealand General Hospital in Cairo, military personnel posing with camels at the pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza, temple ruins and pillars at Luxor, group portrait of Egyptian women, and hospital train in Alexandria. Other images show the sultan's palace, the sultan's guard, a swing bridge over a canal in Barrage Gardens, the river Nile, and the citadel of Cairo. - Images from England feature Bournemouth Beach, Bournemouth Gardens, also the Rufus Stone and Compton Arms Hotel, in New Forest. Photographs taken at Balmer Lawn Section, No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England in circa 1917, show interior views showing hospital wards, building exteriors, grounds, patients and nurses. - Scotland is featured in images taken at Edinburgh, Ellen's Isle in Loch Katrine, and at Loch Lomond. - From New Zealand there are photographs of a parade of Reinforcements at Trentham. - Australian scenes include troops marching past Dog Rock in Albany, Western Australia. - Also includes image of a Canadian Women's Motor Ambulance and the Cunard Line ship RMS 'Aquitania'. - A series of images of Gallipoli probably not taken by Newell. Arrangement: Album originally received with eight loose prints and greeting card enclosed - these are now at PAColl-10385 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album (labelled: Manufactured by the Heinn Co. Milwaukee, Wis[consin] 0663), black leather binding with title, 'Jaunts Abroad', in gilt lettering on cover, black pages with plain paper interleaving, 18 x 30 cm.
Origin of Mawai-Hakona Cultural Association: Interview with Jock McEwen
Date: 27 April 2005 - 27 Apr 2005
By: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010; Rainey, Humphrey Barton, 1926-2015
Reference: OHColl-0763-1
Description: Jock Malcolm McEwen born 17 February 1917 in Feilding. Recalls the formation and development of the Mawai-Hakona Cultural Association in Upper Hutt. Topics talked about include the reason the club was started, its relationship to the Maori Education Foundation, Mawai-Hakona being the Maori name for Trentham, the significance of Ned Nathan of Nga Puhi to the club, moving to new premises from Trentham Army Camp, old members of Ngati Poneke, and other Maori clubs in the Wellington area. Club activites mentioned include composing their own action songs, teaching old Maori chants, oriori (lullabies), winning the Kingi Tahiwi Memorial Cup, discussions about a national competition, performing at the opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1976, teaching the use of the taiaha at Witako Prison now Rimutaka Prison, hosting overseas visitors including North American Native Indians and composers Tua Delamere, Ted Pomare and Mata Warena. Mentions members Humphrey Rainey, Ramona Mercer, Ned Nathan, Harriet Daspers, Dovey Katene Horvath. Interviewer(s) - Humphrey Rainey Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014078 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-5046.
Wairarapa Ward, Hospital, Trentham Military Camp
Date: Between 1914 and 1918
From: Quartermain album 1
Reference: PA1-o-425-14-3
Description: Wairarapa Ward, Trentham Hospital, taken between 1914 and 1918 by L B Quartermain, with a Ford ambulance in the foreground. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - "Wairarapa"; Trentham Huts Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned silver gelatin print 3.9 x 6.3 cm mounted on album page
Freeman, J D : Photograph of the Hutt Valley from Trentham
Date: ca 1940
Reference: PAColl-4367
Description: Photograph of the Hutt Valley from Trentham with the military camp in the foreground ca 1940. Photograph taken by S C Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Shore Bennett, Beverley, 1928- :The Transfiguration. Proposed design for nave window, S...
Date: 1993 - 1994
From: Shore Bennett, Beverley, 1928- :[Group of 55 design drawings for leadlight windows, 1970-1996].
By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-
Reference: A-324-016
Description: Design consists of two panels. In the left panel, three disciples kneel. They watch Christ flanked by two disciples in the right panel. The Christ figure glows white. Under the left panel are the words "Lord! It is good for us to be here". Notes on verso: "This design is inspired by the traditional Transfiguration icons in Russian & Greek Orthodox art. Scale prevents the full development of details which will be in the final glass painting". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Beverley Shore Bennett M.B.E., F.M.G.P. / Stephen Belanger Taylor A.R.C.A., F.M.G.P., R.C.A. / 1993.; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Date on item is 1993. Date in inventory is 1994. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Two watercolour panels, each 88 x 52 mm, mounted on one card, 174 x 194 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1998.
Dorne Cup harrier race, Trentham, Upper Hutt, Wellington
Date: 13 June 1981
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: Dom/1981/0613/1-F
Description: Dorne Cup harrier race, Trentham, Upper Hutt, Wellington, 13 June 1981. Photographs taken by an unidentified Dominion staff photographer. Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s) strips with 30 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm
Miscellaneous records
Date: 1953-1955
From: Hutt County Council : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/20
Description: Correspondence and papers include Royal Humane Society of New Zealand re awards; renaming of road in vicinity of Rimutaka Prison (Wi Tako), 1955; Safe Driving Awards for drivers of commercial vehicles; W Julius Hyde re airport site; New Zealand Geographic Board re the name Horokiwi; New Zealand Travel and Holidays Association Inc list of members and subscribers, 1954; East Harbour Branch, NZ Returned Services Association re East Harbour war memorial; Vance Vivian Ltd re stolen cheque; Wellington Associated Mountain Clubs re shelter at entrance to the Tararua Range, 1954; Whites Aviation Ltd; and other miscellaneous matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
World War, 1939-1945. New Zealand, "NZ" series
Date: 1939-1941
From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency
Reference: PAColl-4161-01-015-07
Description: First, Second and Third Echelons in taining at various military camps and departing from Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :"I imagined he meant a catalogue or an old horse cover...
Date: 1987
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-136-683
Description: Shows a suburban garden in which a racehorse is grazing. A man in shorts and jandals stands happily regarding the horse which he has bought at the Trentham sales. His wife, chatting over the fence to her neighbour, says that she expected a catalogue or an old horse cover, not a racehorse. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 1 photocopy A3 size Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
Barber, R A :Handcoloured photographs of Trentham Military Camp, ca1916
Date: ca 1916
By: Barber, Richard Ainslie, 1914-1981
Reference: PAColl-1757
Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) in two folders.
Trentham Military Camp area (644)
Date: 1963-1965
From: Wellington Regional Planning Authority : Records
Reference: 75-156-352
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
World War, 1939-1945. New Zealand, "NZ" series
Date: 1939
From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency
Reference: PAColl-4161-01-015-03
Description: First Echelon at Hopu Hopu and in training at Trentham and Papakura, 1939 Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).
Harton, G A :Postcards and cabinet card relating to rifle shooting season at Trentham i...
Date: 1893, 1909
By: Harton, G A, active 1989
Reference: PAColl-1337
Description: Quantity: 3 photocopy/ies in one folder.
Boyack, Nicholas John, 1961- :Photographs relating to World War I
Date: 1914
By: Boyack, Nicholas John, 1961-
Reference: PAColl-1255
Description: Photograph of a group of soldiers - some identified Photograph of William Walter White Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies in one envelope.
"On the Lawn", Trentham Racecourse, 1930
Date: 1930
From: Various photographers :Prints from panorama negatives
By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948
Reference: PA6-355
Description: Panoramic photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore Arrangement: Original negative housed at P46 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Outsized panorama
Trentham sanitation
Date: 1920-1929
From: Hutt County Council : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1293-169
Description: Includes lists of ratepayers receiving night sanitation services (night soil collection) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Album relating to Nelson, Coombe family, military training and Waitomo Caves
Date: 1908-1915
From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1551
Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of snow storm at Nelson College, Easter 1911 with Gilbert Coombe and family, Auckland Express train, Trentham Camp in 1912, Honours Board and baths at Nelson College (1908), Hospital Ship 'Mahend', Woodford House, Military camp at Browns Bay, Quarter Masters' Staff of 5th Wellington Regiment (1915), Waitomo Caves, and coach travel. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Reg. V. Kay, 368 Tinakori Road, Wellington, 11/1/1913 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 135 x 180 mm
Venning, Geoffrey Vosper, fl 1910s :[Moonshine Bridge? Trentham? 19]12.
Date: 1912
By: Venning, Geoffrey Vosper, active 1910s
Reference: G-294
Description: Looking along the Hutt River with trees on both sides, towards a bridge Paint flaked off along the base of the picture Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 610 x 912 mm
Shore Bennett, Beverley, 1928- :St John's Trentham. Right wall facing altar. Blessed be...
Date: 1976
From: Shore Bennett, Beverley, 1928- :[Group of 55 design drawings for leadlight windows, 1970-1996].
By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-
Reference: A-325-004
Description: Design is of two panels, the one on the left showing a woman kneeling, and the one on the right showing Christ standing. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Beverley Shore Bennett A.M.G.P./ Miller Studios Ltd / '76; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Verso - top right - Roy Miller Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour panels, on card, 198 x 230 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1998.
Moving Trentham Army camp's gymnasium - Photograph taken by John Nicholson
Date: 1 June 1983
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1983/2055-F
Description: Trentham Army camp's gymnasium being moved to a new site. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson on the 1st of June 1983 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm