Petone
Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Date: 1878-1981
By: Gear Meat Company Ltd
Reference: 81-295
Description: Records include ledgers, staff records, cash books, letter books (1900-1910), various documents (letters, insurance policies, reminiscences, deeds, and mortgages), Board of Directors' records (1962-1975), records of subsidiary and related companies, legal correspondence, killing records, newspaper clippings (1907-1969), share registers and share records (including indexes), and records of the Fellmongery Department (including staff, stock and cash) Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also 78-047, 87-080, 91-256 Petone meat processing plant Quantity: 7 folder(s). 118 volume(s). 47 box(es). 15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans - To Ephemera Collection - 1 box - To Photographic Archive - 3 boxes - To Serials Collection - MIRINZ bulletin (refrigeration) No 2, 1974; Thomson news No 4 May 1972 - To Book Collections - Associated North Island freezing companies of NZ. General report, 1912; Petone Borough Council dairy regulation by-law, 1911; Petone Borough Council heavy traffic by-law, 1905; Petone Borough Council waterworks by-law, 1904; Petone Borough Council drainage & sanitary by-law, 1911.
[Creator unknown] :[The Hutt river valley about 1843] [copy of ms map]. ca.1843.
Date: 1843 - 1939
By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office; Hall, Lance, 1899-1985; War Memorial Library (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)
Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/[ca.1843]/Acc.7915;7918;8370;8371;8372
Description: Cadastral map, with topographic features, of the Hutt River valley from an area north of the Stokes Valley bridge to the harbour. Includes the road which runs parallel to the river. High Street, Victoria Street, Railway Avenue, and Hutt Road are named. The settlements of Richmond, Aglionby and Britannia are named. Includes numbered sections with owners' names. Clifford, Molesworth, Taine, Park, Child, Alzdorf, Hanson, Stokes, Dr. Evans, Riddiford, Dr. Dorset, Swainson, Barton, Compton, Captain Daniell, Colonel Wakefield, Burcham, Bidwill. Several areas of native reserve are marked as are the sites of a pa, Hughes' House, Masons House, Boulcott's House, Molesworth Farm, Aglionby Arms, Queens Head Inn are marked. Title supplied by cataloguer Hand-written along bottom of sheet 5: Photostat of plan in Survey office, Wellington. L. Hall, 1939 Quantity: 1 map(s) on five sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale not given, 196.7 x 63 cm., sheets 64.1 x 45.2 cm. and smaller
[Ephemera relating to ANZAC events in New Zealand and overseas, as anniversaries of the...
Date: 1916 - 1919
Reference: Eph-A-ANZAC-1915/1919
Description: Includes: Undated: Hellenic Travellers Club. Gallipoli ceremony [1916-1950s?] 1916: Anzac Day, first anniversary. Town Hall Auckland, April 25 1916. Programme ANZAC Day, Masterton, April 25th 1916 Anzacs' Concert. Town Hall, Friday Dec. 1st 1916 in aid of Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association Funds. Programme and songbook with loose sheet music for "God save the Tzar". Souvenir to commemorate the exchange of flags between New South Wales Railways and New Zealand Railways, unfurled on Anzac Day, 25th April 1916 at Petone Railway Station. (Poem "The day" by Henry Chappell on verso) Programme, 1st anniversary of the Landing at Anzac. Military sports held at Tel-el-Kebir, April 25th 1916. Programme Anzac Day, Easter Sunday, April 23rd 1916. (The Parish Church of the NZ Depot, England). Service; the 1st anniversary of the landing of New Zealand troops in Gallipoli, April 25th 1915. 1917: Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association. Remember Anzac. Anzac dinner to commemorate the landing at "Anzac", held in the Town Hall Wellington on Arpil [April] 25th 1917. [Printed by] N.Z. Free Lance, Wellington. [Menu and toast list]. 1918: Souvenir programme of The Landing at Anzac Cove on Sunday, 25th April, 1915. Programme of proceedings on Anzac Day, Thursday, 25th April, 1918, by the New Zealand Forces stationed at Sling Camp. [Printed by] Geo W Jones, Typ., at the Sign of the Dolphin in Gough Square, London, E.C.4 [1918] To the memory of our brave comrades. Anzac Eve gathering at Grand Opera House, Wednesday April 24th, 1918, under the direction of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Clubhouse Society, J I Fox manager. New Zealand Times print [1918]. Third anniversary of ANZAC Day; celebrations held at the New Zealand Infantry Base Depot, France, April 25th 1918. Programme (Together with a letter from the Dunedin Returned Services' Association to the Dunedin City Librarian, 21 May 1952 enclosing the programme) 1919: Anzac Day celebration. Government Gardens, Rotorua. Friday April 25th 1919. Chronicle Print Rotorua. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Engravings and offset prints sizes varying up to 240 mm.
Webster collection papers
Date: 1820-1906
From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes
Reference: MS-Papers-6373-28
Description: Contains copies of letters from various Maori and missionaries from all over the North Island with holographic notes appended in the hand writing of Piripi Walker of Ngati Raukawa, some with translations. Includes photocopies and commentary on the 1855 Northland document "Kote pukapuka ote Tarakona". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopies with mss annotations
Lee, Ina :Hutt River looking to the Heads. 1913
Date: 1913
By: Lee, Ina, active 1908-1931
Reference: A-123-023
Description: View near the mouth of the Hutt River, looking past a bridge towards Wellington Harbour and Wellington Heads. Houses at Petone are visible Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 286 x 210 mm
[Architect unknown] :Gear Meat Co. Ltd., Petone. Plan of alterations to slaughter house...
Date: 1917
Reference: Plans-82-0198
Description: Details of no 1 and 2 slaughter house and beef houses Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen
Hosing down a car body at General Motors, Petone - Photograph taken by Merv Griffiths
Date: 29 December 1987
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1987/7098-F
Description: General Motors worker, Papa Koloi, hosing down a car body with white spirit, one of the messiest jobs in the Petone plant. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths 29 December 1987. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacitate film negative, 35mm
Notes on civic heraldry
Date: 1965-1966
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: MS-Papers-5848-3
Description: Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Bert Roth, 1982
Mitchell & Mitchell, architects :New factory Petone for Colgate Palmolive Ltd. June 193...
Date: 1939 - 1941
From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].
By: Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm)
Reference: Plans-2002-058-038-001/027
Description: Floor plans, sections and elevations, with details of bins, partitions of secretary's office, stairway, spandrils, entrance, toilets. Quantity: 27 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to around 590 x 780 mm.
Meldrum album
Date: [Between early 1900s to 1910s?]
By: Meldrum, Jessie Irene McCallum, 1896-1986
Reference: PA1-o-337
Description: Photographs of the Hutt Valley railway line, some of which has been constructed. Some of the scenes seem to show the route the line will take, with a number of panoramic views of country areas in the valley, some older photographs of Upper Hutt township, a panoramic views of Lower Hutt and Petone taken from the Belmont Hills, and scenes at the Upper Hutt Railway Station. Two photographs show New Zealand Railways steam engine No. 197 at Upper Hutt Railway Station Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entitled `Album', lettered in black with surrounding decoration; 17.5 x 21.5 cm
Pearse, John 1808-1882 :[Portraits of Maori]. Hutt district. At Pitoni. [Between 1852 a...
Date: 1852 - 1856
From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]
Reference: E-455-f-020-09
Description: A half-length frontal portrait of an unnamed Maori man of Petone Pa. He has a moko, is wearing a European cap and is wrapped in a blanket or flax cloak. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 122 x 75 mm
Royal tour 1901
Date: 1901
Reference: PA1-f-064
Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. Scenes include the arrival of the royal visitors at various places, by ship, Royal carriages, and Royal train; ceremonies and rites welcoming them; views of triumphal arches erected for the tour, including Marble Arch (Queen Street, Auckland), the Auckland Harbour Board Arch, the Citizen's Arch (Wellesley Street), and the Government Arch (City of Wellington). Other ceremonies are associated with the presentation of war-medals; the laying of foundation stones (Victoria College for Maori Girls, Parnell, Auckland), the Wellington Town Hall, and the Queens Memorial Statue in Dunedin); and the march past and inspection of various guards, troops and veterans. One photograph shows Lord Ranfurly in Auckland, reading the proclamation extending the boundaries of the colony to include the Cook Islands (p 16). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Visit of Duke of Cornwall and York (King George V.). 1901. Maoris - Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch". Hand-printed in ink on slip attached to front cover.
AFCM album 2
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.
Lynskey, Vida (Mrs) :Photograph of Petone Technical Institute class, ca 1909 -1921
Date: ca 1909-1921
By: Lynskey, Vida, active 1980s
Reference: PAColl-1216
Description: Includes J H Lynskey in photograph Quantity: 2 photocopy/ies in one envelope.
Kelly and Mair :Hutt Valley Memorial Technical College, Petone. Proposed additions [and...
Date: 1951 - 1952
From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]
By: Kelly & Mair (Firm)
Reference: Plans-93-0215/0216
Description: Shows floor plans, and details of toilet block addition. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying up to 370 x 715 mm.
Houses and buildings in Petone, Alicetown and Wellington
Date: 1987 - 1990
From: Parnham, J W :Houses and buildings in Petone, Alicetown and Wellington
By: Parnham, John Warrington, 1917-2006
Reference: PAColl-1618-1
Description: Parliament buildings, Petone Fire Station during and after construction, plaque installed at the Patrick Street Historical Precinct by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Hutt River viaduct, and houses in Alicetown Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies identifying Alicetown houses and Patrick street plaque housed with collection. Provenance: Photographs taken by Mr Parnham
Te Puni, Henare fl 1881 : Leases
Date: 1881
By: Te Puni, Henare, active 1840-1881
Reference: MSI-Papers-1495
Description: Deeds between Henare Te Puni and Archibald Stuart for leases of land bordering Korokoro Stream, Petone Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres.
[Creator unknown] :Hutt Valley 139C [Land blocks in part of Petone] [map with ms annota...
Date: 1910 - 1919
From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Maps
By: Gear Meat Company Ltd
Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/[191-?]/Acc.37841
Description: Cadastral street map of land blocks in part of Petone, from Gear Street southwards to the Esplanade, and westwards to Beach Street. Streets are named, sections are numbered with acreage, (difficult to decipher), some groups of sections are highlighted. Ink annotation on the map highlights the Petone Technical Institute on Jackson Street. Title from Accession record. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, coloured, on diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 39.5 x 40 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Gear Meat Company, 81-295.
Diary kept by Mrs Helena Holroyd of trip from England to New Zealand, and after arrival
Date: [ca 1920-1921]
From: Holroyd, Reuben, 1883-1958 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0403-18
Description: Describes voyage to NZ on the RMS Ruahine, setting up house in Petone, and factory work Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Date: [ca 1902-1958]
By: Gear Meat Company Ltd
Reference: 87-080
Description: Includes volumes missing from earlier accessions Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See previous accessions 73-047 and 81-295, and MS-Group-0740 Quantity: 15 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Provenance: Found by IBM staff in former offices of Gear Meat Co