Otira

Date: [Between 1933 and 1945]

From: Paddy, Laurence George Malvern, 1906?-1971: Photographs relating to the Lauri Paddi Band

Reference: PA1-q-182

Description: Photographs relating to the dance band scene in New Zealand in the 1930s and 1940s, largely associated with Lauri Paddi (aka Laurence George Malvern Paddy] and various bands. Many of the images are signed by musicians in the bands, not all the signatures being legible. Names have been listed where possible. Musicians with signatures Ian H Pitcaithly, W O Pritchard, and Jeffrey Madden, are probably the same as musicians listed on a poster for the Auckland Peter Pan Orchestra (Nin Pitcaithly, Billy Pritchardt, and Johnny Madden). One series of photographs shows musicians performing with Lauri Paddi going on tour in the South Island, including two views taken from a car, following a train on the road/rail Rakaia Bridge. The stage show 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' was performed at the Paramount Theatre, Wellington, in 1944. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with light brown mottled pattern, entitled `Photographs'; 25.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: [Between 1880 and 1889]

From: Burton Brothers :New Zealand Through the Camera

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA4-0098

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of The West Coast Road, Otira, taken in the 1880s by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Inscriptions: mat verso - bottom left - New Zealand through the camera. Burton Brothers, Photos., Dunedin, N.Z. West Coast Road. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 24 Feb-26 Apr 1937

From: MacGowan, Mary, fl 1936-1938 : Diary of a trip to New Zealand

Reference: MSX-5914

Description: Diary kept by MacGowan during her time in New Zealand; she writes of her activities with her relatives in Wellington, and all the people she meets through them, of going to the South Island, through Nelson, the West Coast including Franz Joseph Glacier and to Christchurch via Otira, before returning to Wellington where she celebrated her birthday Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: Circa 1900 to 1905

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-295

Description: Album of photographs, probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly taken on a tour around the South Island. The first images relate to an area around Wellington, including Waiwhetu and Wainuiomata, including scenes of the Wainuiomata Reservoir. Two photographs taken in a park show three women wearing hats, full-length outfits, and carrying umbrellas, the "McNabs". One photograph shows a group of men and women, members of a camera club. The tour aound the South Island travels from Sheffield, down to the Otira Gorge, up to Lake Brunner and Inangahua, past Murchison, through Longford. In Wellington Harbour the steamship Ophir is sailing out, with people standing on the wharf in the foreground. Also in Wellington, is a large group portrait of men associated with the Missions to Seamen, gathered together on Labour Day 1901. Five photographs are taken around Otaki, one a pastoral scene, and two of three young Maori people (a young woman and a young girl in two scenes, with a second young girl in the third scene); a water mill; and a group of four people having a picnic in a field (two women (one obscured) and a young boy on the left, and a man with a bandaged hand on the right). The last few scenes are again of the South Island, at Temuka, Otago Harbour, Dunedin (including the Octagon), and a tram belonging to the Roslyn Tramway Company with a group of men on the front cab, and three standing in front. Inscriptions: Album page - G W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: n d

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-266

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; includes several unidentified letter writers and notes. Table of comparative altitudes of the Otira road giving barometer and spirit level altitudes. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1925

From: East, Pamela: Photographs of groups visiting the Canterbury outback, family portraits, and Maori

Reference: PAColl-6917-2

Description: The people in these photographs look like tourist groups who have just got out of a bus. They are photographed aginst scenic backdrops of forest covered hills, river valleys and mountains; they are showen picnicing in similar locations; some of the locations are identifiable and include Otira, Otira Gorge and Tunnel, Arthurs Pass, and the gravel reaches of the upper Waimakariri River. Some of the images show groups of people associated with corrugated iron huts. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-012

Description: Looking east at Otira with houses and telegraph poles along the right side, the mountains in the background, a broad road in the centre Other Titles - Taramakau near Ray's accommodation house Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 178 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E Laing, England, 18 July 1940

Date: 1896-1897

By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910; Cundy, Horace Gordon, 1907-1983

Reference: PA1-o-124

Description: Photograph album of West Coast scenes, compiled, and in part photographed by surveyor George John Roberts. Several images show Roberts, including one image of him with L Cockayne and C E Douglas standing on ice at the Bealey in April 1897. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black bound album with cream cotton spine, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Mr H G Cundy, Palmerston North, 1977. The album was compiled by surveyor George Roberts, uncle of Mr Cundy.

Date: 1887

From: Alexander, J, b 1863? :Photograph album of English yachts on the Solent, and other photographs

By: Jackson, A G (Mr), active 1887; West & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-010

Description: Album appears to have been owned by J Alexander as it came into the possession of his son F R Alexander. Photographs taken by A G Jackson (and possibly also by his companions on the trip - H.A.F Jackson and J Alexander) in 1887 on a penny-farthing cycle trip from Christchurch to the West Coast, have been added to an existing album of commercial photographs of yachting on The Solent, England. Most of the yachts are named. Named yachts include 'Queen Eleanor', 'Silver Star', 'Raven', 'Bonina', 'Buttercup', 'Mavourneen', 'Nonparelle', and 'Vanessa'. Other Titles - Instantaneous photographs: Yachting Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 370 x 260 mm grey buckram, with black spine and corners, with title 'Instantaneous photographs Yachting' embossed on cover, in phase box.

Date: [19--]

From: Tracy, Mona Innis, 1897-1959 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0157-03

Description: On history of Greenstone Creek, Otira and Westland Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955

Reference: PA1-q-113

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, probably taken by A P Harper Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - `To Alec and Flo' from Mother, Hokitika, 1st July, 1897'; Album page - `A.S. Malcolm, "Lossie", Balclutha' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cloth cover, red simulated leather spine and corners; 37 x 28 cm Provenance: No donor information available. Given to Alexander Scott Malcolm and his wife Flora in 1897.

Date: 1863-1870

By: Cooper, Thornhill, 1840-1940

Reference: MS-Papers-7106

Description: Comprises photocopies of newspaper articles on Cooper and typescript extracts from journals describing his travels from Hokitika to Panama in 1868, a walk from Dunedin to the West Taieri diggings in 1863 and an excursion by coach and foot from Hokitika to the Otira Gorge in 1870 Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-0279 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed (photocopies)

Date: 1899

From: Mueller, Mildred Violet, d 1969 :Albums

By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910

Reference: PA1-o-355

Description: Scenes in Westland, the Southern Alps and Canterbury, taken in the 1890s by George John Roberts (1848-1910), Chief Surveyor in Westland. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - To Isabel from old "Yellow Tickets", Christmas 1899 Provenance: Album from the collection of Gerhard Mueller (1835?-1918), Chief Surveyor for Westland Province 1868-1892. Donated by his daughter, Mildred Violet Mueller, Auckland, April 1967.

Date: 1976 - 1905

By: Walsh, Alfred Wilson, 1859-1916; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-063-a

Description: A stream running down a rocky cleft with native bush in the background Reproduced from a watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 480 x 335 mm, on sheet 636 x 520 mm

Date: [1830-1950]

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Miscellaneous items transferred from Printed Collections

Reference: MS-Papers-6005

Description: Includes invitation to Herbert Corder's lecture on `Militarism and international relationship' and notes re this (10 Jul 1911, Christchurch); photographs of sketches by John Caughley of earthquake effects (from accessions 6179-6181) (1904); notes re Jessie Mackay's `Land of the morning' (from copy in Printed collections); poem, `Nature and faith'; geometrical exercises; diary kept by very elderly man in Nelson area (1950); part of play script; letters from John Beecham and unknown person (1830, 1851); and programme, Garrison Theatre, Bulford (between 1914-1918) Also Mt Cook School Old Scholars Association annual report (1927); military papers for Pte E W Guise (1919); `West Coast times' extra re defeat of Stafford ministry; souvenir to commemorate the meeting of British and NZ troops in Egypt with poem by Drummer T Black (1915); circular letter from Colin Graham Scrimgeour (1943); schedule of authorised abbreviation symbols with mss annotations (from the J C Yaldwyn collection); graph showing education expenditure for twenty post-war years (from `Making NZ' papers); statement, apparently by J C Andersen, re visit Sir Truby King paid to the library (1935); promissory note (1885); diagram re tap (1887); NZR pass for opening of the Otira tunnel (1923); letter, from [?] Bain to Mrs Still (1879); and photocopy of marriage certificate, Edwin Hill to Esther Fannie [?] Winders (1879); Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 13 May 1920

Reference: PAColl-10374

Description: Two photographs of 'The Prince of Wales', Edward Duke of Windsor, seated on top of a carriage at Otira during a tour of the West Coast in 1920, taken by an unidentified photographer. The caption inscriptions on the reverse of both images are in the same hand, and state: - 'Prince of Wales' Otira - Prince waving 'Farewell' Otira - time coaching The royal visit of the Prince of Wales to Otira took place in the afternoon on 13 May 1920. See 'The Prince of Wales West Coast tour ended, overland journey to Christchurch, scenery greatly admired', Otago Daily Times (issue 17935), 14 May 1920, page 5. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1929-1933

From: Thomson, William Sidney, 1908-1982: Photographs relating particularly to New Zealand hydroelectric power stations

Reference: PA1-o-1823

Description: Photographs, particularly of hydroelectric power stations in New Zealand, taken between 1929-1933 by William Sidney Thomson. Hydro scheme images feature: construction, unidentifided workers, and work camp housing at the Waitaki Hydro-Electric Scheme (1930); construction of the Coffer Dam, including draught tubes and turbines; Arapeti Dam and surrounding forest; interior and exterior shots of the completed Mangahao Power Station (1933) with one unidentified worker and partially submerged trees; houses, tents, roads, drafting room at district office, and surge chamber at Mangaore-Waikaremoana Power System, Shannon, with W B King identified and Thomson at work; and the power station at Lake Coleridge. Also contains images of steam power station at Otira as well as railway images from the area (tunnel, locomotive). Holiday photographs show Thomson with [friends? colleagues?]. These images show hiking, skiing, hunting, and river scenes, with Arthur's Pass, Cass, and the Isle of Skye, Scotland, featured. Other locations include Dead Mans Creek, Canterbury College Biological Station, and Christchurch's Cathedral Square and Port Lyttelton (1933). Identified figures are Rob Mc Farquhar and Milne Watson. Gordon H is shown in his robes with this Masters of Science and suburban images show Matapouri Crescent and Elmira Avenue in Palmerston North (1933). Arrangement: Letter from donor, written 30 June 2013, reads: "Enclosed are originals of the photographs taken by my father, W S Thomson, of the New Zealand power stations. The pages (now numbered) are in the order in which they came in the album" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cardboard photograph album pages with silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1924

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

Reference: Pan-1110-F

Description: Panoramic view of Otira Village with rows of workmen's cottages, a wide riverbed in the foreground, two-storeyed hotel centre left, and the Otira Power House on the left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Otira Village N.Z.; Photographer's title on negative - Otira Village. No. 489 New Zealand 1924 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.5 cm

Date: 1954 - 1955

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-A-RAIL-1954/1955-bound

Description: Bound volume includes booklets and pamphlets as follows: N.Z. Railways. 3 lakes excursion: Wakatipu, Te Anau, Manapouri. 11 December 1954 Flower Sunday excursion. Palmerston North, 30 January 1955. New Zealand Railways excursion to Milford Sound and Queenstown, 18-19 February 1955 Tour of Northland, June 1955 [for] West Coast (South Island) Federated Farmers Rangi-Toto on the warpath. Auckland invasion of Canterbury, 26-28 August 1955. New Zealand Railways excursion to Hastings, September 10th 1955. Blossom Festival. New Zealand Railways. Railway excursion to Franz Josef Glacier, 7-9 October [1955] Cherry blossom excursions to Palmerston North, 16 October 1955. New Zealand Railways. Railway excursion to Roxburgh Hydro-Electric Works. 29-31 October [1955] Rotorua official sightseeing trips by N.Z.R. Road Services N.Z. Railways. 3 lakes excursion: Wakatipu, Te Anau, Manapouri.5 November 1955 New Zealand Railways. Railway excursion to Queenstown, 11-13 November [1955] A new era; diesel power on the New Zealand Railways [1955] To Arthur Pass and Otira by rail [1955] The Thermal route [1955] New Zealand Railways excursion to Milford Sound. [1955] Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 220 mm.