St. Bathans

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1895-1897, 1903

From: Hay, Mary Stuart Carlton, 1874-1946 : Seddon family scrapbooks and letters

By: Hunter, Ashley John Barsby, 1854-1932

Reference: MSY-2028

Description: Includes mss poem to R J Seddon by Thomas Bracken on occasion of Seddon's 50th birthday, 1895; other poems (typescript and printed); article re poetry of Barcroft Henry Boake; article on Governors of NZ by Dr Hocken (Otago Witness, Dec 1896); silver wedding of Richard J Seddon; marriage of Jane Seddon to Rev W S Bean; mss poem by E H Clements entitled `Welcome', Jan 1869; photographs published in Canterbury Times, 4 Jul 1895 of R J Seddon, his wife and nine children; articles, invitation cards & menus relating to Seddon's visit to England in 1897; bill of fare on `Alameda' (Oceanic Steamship Co); article re British Navy; marriage of Phoebe Seddon to Frank Dyer, Jan 1897; Lord Charles Beresford; Chatham Islands (OW, Dec 1896); early Wellington; cartoons by Ashley Hunter entitled `Inspector's parade' and `Recent events' (from NZ Graphic, ca 1892); full description of Seddon's "At Home" - guest list and description of gowns worn; death of Mrs James Suisted; mining claim at St Bathans; Women's Liberal League; Women's Social and League; and various NZ, English and Australian newspaper cuttings relating to R J Seddon and his wife and other notables. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1875

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1875, 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-015-039

Description: View across the Maniototo Plain with a river winding across it, looking towards the St Bathans Range Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 132 x 206 mm

Date: 5 November 1977

Reference: PAColl-7333

Description: Right Worshipful Brother J W Vivian, Deputy Grand Master, Worshipful Brother J K Leask, Master, Very Worshipful Brother T M Donaldson, Grand Chaplain, and Des Bleach, Chairman of Maniototo County Council, unveiling the plaque on a hall commemorating the first meeting of the St Bathans Lodge and lodge members and others singing accompanied by an organ set up on the pavement outside the hall. Photographer unidentified but possibly the donor. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1960, 1964-1965, 1967, 1969, 1970-1980

From: Heine, Lynette Sibyl :Slides of Wellington and St Bathans :Prints, postcards, newspaper clippings, ephemera and souvenirs of Europe

Reference: PAColl-1161-2

Description: Quantity: 400 colour lantern slide(s) (approximately) in one box.

Date: 1969-1970, [1970s]

From: Garland, Phil, 1942-2017: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1920

Description: Album contains images taken in the Otago region by Phil Garland in 1969-1970 and ca 1970s. They include: - Images of Lawrence, including the Presbyterian Community Centre, dirt roads, gravestones, and monuments and signs relating to the discovery of gold at Gabriel's Gully. - The Clutha River near Roxburgh, views on the road between Roxburgh and Alexandra of mountains, old buildings, and the miners' memorial at Chamonix. - Portraits of Garland's field informants in various locations (see names indexed below). - Dunstan House, Dunstan Lodge, and the miners' memorial in Clyde. - Views of Kawarau Gorge, Arrowtown and Lake Wakatipu. - Images of Golden Terrace Mining Town, including replica shops, signs, stables, bank, and houses, along with genuine goldrush era artefacts such as sluicing gun, small stamper battery, and wagon. - Buildings at Cardrona, the Pigroot, Naseby, and St Bathan's. - Old mine workings at St Bathan's showing soil erosion. - Many images have captions giving the location and subject. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Ringbinder album with blue cover, 22.5 x 27 cm

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: Date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-12235

Description: Transparencies of mainly pictorial views in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the view. Photographer name is sometimes annotated. Views and locations annotated on the slide mounts include East Island and East Cape lighthouse, ferry from Pencarrow lighthouse, Charming Creek walkway in Ngakawau Gorge, view from motel at Larnach's Castle in Otago, view from Mission house at Mangungu, Waiau River, Jacksons Bay, Mount Taranaki/Egmont, Geoffrey Thornton at Morven Hills, Blue Lake at St Bathans, and Royal Viking Sea [cruise ship] at Wellington. Title transcribed from item. Most transparencies are undated. Arrangement: Transparencies were stored in two small plastic slide cases, capable of holding approximately 30- 40 mounted transparencies each, with the transparencies stored flat in two stacks, both labelled "Pictorial". There was no apparent order. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: [ca 1900s-1930s] - 7 February 1912

From: Hughes, Helen Hannah, 1929- : Photographs relating to Rigg and Hughes families

By: Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-10649-3

Description: Photographic prints. Group portraits and building portraits. Dated circa 1900s-1930s. Includes: - Group of visitors on a boat at "Hamurana Spring L[ake] Rotorua", by Marsh, dated 7 February 1912 - Group of visitors at "Hinemoa Steps, Okere", by Marsh, Rotorua, dated 7 February 1912 - Group portrait of five male subjects, named verso as Professor Easterfield, Mr Rigg, Sir John Russell, Mr Gibbs, Mr Davies, at O'Connor's land, Appleby - "Parliament Buildings 1901", Wellington, with two boys posed in front of fence - Portrait of two girls in a garden - group portraits of people posed near a waterfall - building portrait captioned "House in McNabbs Garden, Hutt", [also known as Bellevue Gardens Hotel] - Group of subjects posed outside the "Post and Telegraph Office" in Morrinsville - Landscape photograph of "St Bathans" in Central Otago, showing the Vulcan Hotel and other buildings - Parade of decorated motor vehicles, including tractors; one vehicle has a sign "Featherston Boy Scouts" - Group portrait with photographer's stamp verso "Lovedays (N.Z.) Ltd Photographic Specialist 625 Colombo Street Christchurch". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints.

Date: [Circa 1870s and 1880s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Hart, Campbell & Company; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland)

Reference: PA1-o-359

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, taken by various photographers. Some are unidentified, but many are taken by the Burton Brothers, J V (James Valentine), Tuttle & Co, for Simpson & Co., and Hart, Campbell & Co. In the North Island, a large number of photographs show the area around Mount Tarawera before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. There are a number showing the huge deposits of mud and ash which covered the area, with views of the landscape and of ruined buildings, followed by scenes of the Pink and White Terraces, before the eruption. On page 8, there is a view of Ranana (London), on the Wanganui River with the caption, "Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by the eruption". Other scenes in the North Island were taken in Auckland City, Ohinemutu, Rotokakahi, and Whakarewarewa, Ti Eke [i.e. Tieke] on the Wanganui River, and one of Wellington City taken from Mount Victoria. South Island views include many around the main lakes, including Wakatipu, Wanaka, Manapouri, Queenstown and Hawea; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; the Otira Gorge; Kawarau Gorge and Bridge; Oamaru; Port Chalmers; and Dunedin. Views of gold mining areas in Otago include excavation sluiced out by hydrants at St Bathans, and the miners' towns of Naseby with the river choked with tailings, and Nokomai. Portraits of Maori including Ana Rupene. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with marron leather binding covered with waxed brown-paper cover, entitled `New Zealand photographs, [E?] Nairn'; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: [ca 1880s-1910s]

By: Holmes, Robert West, 1856-1936

Reference: PA1-o-1544

Description: Album compiled by civil engineer Robert West Holmes or a family member, ca 1880s-1910s. Shows North Island Main Trunk Railway works at Poro-o-tarao, Waiteti Viaduct, Huiroa Saddle, camp near Piriaka, Sew Hoy Dredge on Shotover River in 1890. Includes named portraits of railway engineers, family and friends in New Zealand and England. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 205 x 175 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1902, 1914-1915, ca1947, 1955

From: Heine, Lynette Sibyl :Slides of Wellington and St Bathans :Prints, postcards, newspaper clippings, ephemera and souvenirs of Europe

By: Heine, Lynette Sibyl, active 1987-1996

Reference: PAColl-1161-1

Description: Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) panorama and. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) in souvenir album and. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) in show case and. 43 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) and. 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s) and. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) greeting card in one box.

Date: [ca 1880s-1966]

By: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979; Burke, Walter Ernest Messervy, 1866-1954; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-4454

Description: Mounted photographs of a moa skeleton compared with a human one; a view from Cains Terrace, Timaru showing the Post Office and old St Mary's Church; a group of Maori in traditional clothes outside the carved meeting house at Ohinemutu, Rotorua; view of Parihaka pa with Te Whiti's house on the left and Mount Taranaki in the background; Sir George Grey's house at Kawau Island with a jetty; two stuffed kiwi and a kiwi egg; a woman sitting outside a Maori whare with a pig; a man standing outside the Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans with advertisements for Gaytime ice-cream and Speights beer 1966; and a loose print of a young woman sitting at the pihanga of a meeting house with a carved pare. Photographers include Walter Burke. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-029165, 071676, 071677, 071678, and 071696. Two of the images are described as the same as 1/2-031035 and 1/2-015845 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: 1880

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Central Otago goldmining areas, 2 dated 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-032-q-3-001

Description: River terraces and mountains Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on loose page, 198 x 155 mm

Date: [Bween 1870 and 1885]

Reference: PA1-o-091

Description: Album of early New Zealand scenes, mainly taken by the Burton Brothers. Images include gold digging, gold dredging (image of Sew Hoy's dredge), and gold sluicing, one showing the flume on a Scandinavian race at St Bathans. There are a number of views of the Pink and White Terraces, scenes of Maori life in the King Country, and scenic views of Dunedin and the Queenstown-Lakes District. The album consists of about 71 pages, of which 25 are empty. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon covered album, 23 x 31 cm Provenance: Donated by Kings Cottage Museum, Australia, 1987

Date: 1896, 1903, [ca 1910]

By: Paterson, M (Mrs), active 1966; Pyle, Frank Mortimer, active 1903

Reference: PA-Group-00210

Description: Photographs, particularly of St Bathans, Central Otago, after a heavy snowfall, taken by F M Pyle in 1903. Includes one of St Bathans taken in 1896, and two of the flax industry in the South Island, taken circa 1910, by Will Cameron of Invercargill. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 14 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 8 December 1984 - 08 Dec 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Jewiss, Israel, 1895-1986

Reference: OHInt-0070/07

Description: Ray Jewiss recalls family background and childhood St Bathans, Central Otago, work as message boy at St Bathans Post Office, R W Noake the postmaster, details of layout, delivery of gold through mail system, courting couples, hotel, duties of message boy, communications, Mr Hazeldine (?) the magistrate, the banks - Bank of New Zealand and Bank of New South Wales, working at Telegraph Branch Dunedin in 1913, boarding houses in Wellington, learning telegraphy at Telegraph School Wellington, work as a telegraphist at Caversham Post Office, Dunedin, uniform and clothing, salary. Discusses Mr Veitch the Chief Engineer at Dunedin, work at Roslyn Post Office Dunedin, work as junior clerk at the Engineers' Office in Dunedin, female employees in the Post Office, social life, visit by Sir Joseph Ward to the St Bathans' Post Office. Details work as a teacher at the Post and Telegraph Correspondence School, Wellington 1918-1951, various staff, H T Dawson, the standard of teaching, promotion, team spirit in the Post Office, retirement. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - At Ray Jewiss's home at Howick, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000792B - OHC-000794 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.29 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 117. Search dates: 1895 - 1984

Date: [192-?]

Reference: PAColl-9028

Description: Photograph of a gold mining area at St Bathans, Otago, circa 1920s. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on backing board of print. Date estimated by catalguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 14.5 x 19.8 cm

Date: 1978

From: McGill, D K :Negatives of South Island 'ghost towns'

Reference: 35mm-00898-e-F

Description: Deserted post office building, St Bathans, Otago, photographed by David McGill in 1978. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. This building was still standing in 1989, with a residence on the upper floor. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [194-?]

From: New Zealand Meteorological Service :Photographs of meteorological observatories

Reference: 1/2-055766-F

Description: At the rainfall station, St Bathans, Otago, (1940s?). View includes washing hanging on a line. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative