Portland Island

Date: 1872-1903

By: Robson, Charles Hepburn Orlando, 1855-1913

Reference: MS-Papers-6271

Description: Transcripts of diaries of Charles Robson and his daughter Amy Robson. Those of Charles Robson contain brief entries detailing his life on lighthouses around New Zealand from 1872 to 1903. Amy Robson then a 16 year old, recorded a trip on the Hinemoa around the Snares and southern part of of the South Island, arranged by the Government Light Service for her father and family upon his retirement. Transcripts made by Malcolm Robson. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: ca 1913-1930

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

Reference: PAColl-0611-1

Description: Sub antarctic islands, lighthouses, Government steamers servicing lighthouses, early radio technology, and some of the people involved Arrangement: Negatives at F 175398 1/2 - F 175406 1/2, and F 69066 1/4 - F 69071 1/4 Quantity: 15 b&w original negative(s). 11 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: date unknown

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

Reference: 35mm-112002

Description: Copy negative film strip with three frames relating to lighthouse keeper Nicolas Sciascia. The original carte de visite portrait copied here was taken by John Robert Hanna, circa 1890 to 1898. The photograph of keepers and their families (including Sciascia and Hansen family members) having a picnic on a beach on Portland Island were originally taken by an unidentified photographer circa late 1897 to early 1898. Copy negatives made by an unidentified photographer. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Negative arrived at Library in a scrapbook album. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) strip with three frames. Physical Description: Black and white 35mm copy negative strip Transfers: Negative original held in scrapbook album at PA1-q-1313.. Processing information: Negative was separated from scrapbook album to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: 1980-2003

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

By: Hanna, John Robert, 1850-1915

Reference: PA1-q-1313

Description: Scrapbook album compiled by Eileen Tiller relating to lighthouses and the Hansen family, covering a time period of circa 1860s to 2000s, likely compiled over a period from the 1980s to 2013. Photographers largely unidentified but many are likely taken by Hansen family members. Eileen Tiller is identified as a photographer. Includes typescript histories, clippings, and photographs from lighthouses and their surrounding areas and associated buildings. The lighthouses featured are Cape Maria van Diemen, Cape Reinga, North Head of Kaipara Harbour, Cape Brett, Moko Hinau [sic] Island, Cuvier Island, Tiritiri Matangi Island, East Cape, Cape Egmont, Portland Island, Castlepoint, Cape Palliser, Pencarrow Head (lighthouse and low-level automated light), Baring Head, Somes Island, The Brothers, and Stephens Island. Cranes and derricks, pullies, tramlines and pathways, social activitities (listening to the wireless, picnics), construction of lighthouses, automated lights, and the introduction of solar powered navigation lights (Parengarenga and Fraser Rock) are some subjects that are covered. Animals, including goats and dogs appear in some photographs. Identified people include Hansen family members (Anders Hansen, Elizabeth Hansen, Lena Hansen, Annie Hansen, and Fred Hansen are named); Inez Pearce, Mr Pearce, and Mrs Sheerwood at Cape Brett Lighthouse; Oliver Robertson and Mr Dowley at Cape Egmont Lighthouse; keeper Mr Shepherd and W Cookson of Wairoa [Cape Egmont or Portland Island lighthouse?]; Nicholas Sciascia, including a carte de visite by Hanna, and material relating to his death; J Marchbanks, Chief Engineer of the Wellington Harbour Board, and other unidentified Habour Board employees; Mr R S Wilson principal keeper at Pencarrow; Steve O’Neill Principal Keeper at Pencarrow; Captain C M Duthie; Mrs E Riddiford; and Mr Pearce, Hermia Hutton (née Hansen) and Bob Hutton, and Jamie Seddon all photographed on Somes Island. Unidentified people include a family at Tiritiri Ligthouse, Swiss Sharemilkers and their musical instruments at Cape Egmont Lighthouse, and two group photographs of keepers and their families on Portland Island (one on a beach picnic, another seated in front of a house). Named ships are the government lighthouse tenders 'Hinemoa' and 'Tutanekai'. The 'Huanui' is also identified, There are photographs and articles relating to shipwrecks including that of the ship 'Pirate' on Portland Island and that of the 'Zuleika' off Cape Palliser. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Scrapbook album arrived at the Library containing loose items and with items stored in an envelope stuck to the front cover. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing photographs, clippings, ephemera. Physical Description: Scrapbook with brown plastic cover, 31.5 x 38.2 Transfers: Materials separated from this album are now at MS-Papers-12440-1.. Processing information: Material that was loose or stored in inappropriate housing was separated from album for conservation and housing purposes.

Date: 2013

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12440-2

Description: Contains a loose magazine cutting, newspaper clipping, a photocopy of a logbook, a photocopy photograph, and inward correspondece to Eileen Tiller from a scrapbook album on lighthouses in New Zealand compiled by Eilleen Tiller, circa 1980 to 2013. The photocopy of a photograph possibly shows Moeraki Lighthouse. The magazine clipping is of a photograph of Akaroa Lighthouse, which was moved from the entrance of Akaroa Harbour to Akaroa township (the latter site is pictured in the clipping). A newspaper clipping relates to Donald Sutherland and Milford Sound and there is a copy of a page of a logbook or diary [Sutherland's?] from January1883 that mentions Anders Hansen. Inward correspondence to Tiller includes a handwritten letter, possibly from the 1970s or 1980s, from Inez Elliot (née Pearce) concerning her childhood at different lighthouses around New Zealand, and a typescript letter from Murray Eagle regarding his life as the last lighthouse keeper at Portland Island. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Scrapbook album arrived at the Library containing loose items and with items stored in an envelope stuck to the front cover. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, photocopies Transfers: See PA1-q-1314 for album that originally held this material.. Processing information: Material that was loose or stored in inappropriate housing was separated from album for conservation and housing purposes.

Date: [ca 1898-1910s]

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

Reference: 35mm-112001

Description: Copy negative of the grave of Nicolas Sciascia on Portland Island. Original photograph taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1898 to 1910s. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Negative arrived at Library in a scrapbook album. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) strip with one frame. Physical Description: Black and white 35mm copy negative Transfers: Negative original held in scrapbook album at PA1-q-1313.. Processing information: Negative was separated from scrapbook album to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: 1990 to ca 2000s

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10721

Description: Contains two group portraits of attendees of the Lighthouse Keepers Reunion in Lower Hutt, April 1990. Taken by Photonews (Wainuiomata). One photograph is mounted on thick card and the other is mounted on a lighter card. Both are laminated. One of the two group portraits is titled "Pre 1900 Descendants" and those in it are Sandra Greig, Winston Woodbury, Iris Garside, Yvonne Chisholm, and Eileen Tiller. Those in the larger "Pre 1930"group are also identified. Also containes a photocopy of a group of lighthouse keepers and their families on a beach picnic at Portland Island in 1989. Identified people are Nick Sciascia and Anders and Elizabeth Hansen.The photograph was originally published in New Zealand Memories magazine, Issue 26 in ,2000. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 2 colour original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler photographic prints mounted on card and laminated, photocopies

Date: 2003

By: Pearson, Jacky, active 2000s

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2003-05

Description: Calendar featuring paintings by Jacky Pearson, of thirteen New Zealand lighthouses, each with a short history. Locations include: Timaru Light (1878), Godley Head (1865), Baring Head (1935), Kaipara Harbour (1884), Portland Island (1878), Jacks Point, Taiaroa Head (1865), Karori Rock (1915), Kahurangi Light (1903), Tory Channel Leading Lights (1882), and Cape Foulwind (1926). June and July are misisng from this copy; they probably featured Mokohinau and Cape Foulwind (the text for Cape Foulwind is present, opposite the picture for Jack's Point which has no text) Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs on pages of calendar, each 280 x 353 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mary Newman, Wellington, in 2004.

Date: [ca 1927-1951]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-199

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, late 1920s-1950s. New Zealand people in the news - Campbell Island meteorological station personnel; Watkins family of Hastings (champions in three sports), 1939; Hon W E Parry & Hon Walter Nash at celebrations to mark Lower Hutt becoming at city in 1941; Bishop Cherrington, Rev G H Scurr & Rev L K Collins, 1931; Captain S G Stringer, 1927; Colonel A W Orsborn & family; Mrs Ellingham of Dannevirke; Mrs Basilia Schulte-Baeuminghaus & daughter Ira (of Bavaria); Len Hodge (Canterbury junior diving champion) with John McCormack, USA; MPs J A McL Roy, T L MacDonald & A S Sutherland, 1949; John Smith (pilot instructor), 1937. Photographs relating to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Phillip, 1947 Photograph of Mr B Lusk (solicitor), Mrs Bayley, Mr R E Fawcett (solicitor) and Mrs Bayley's father, T Palmer arriving at the Supreme Court Auckland during the trial of William Alfred Bayley, who was charged with the murder of S P Lakey and his wife at Ruawao, May 1934. Jubilee Exhibition of Canterbury College of Art - Former directors examining a portrait by R Wallwork of Robert Herdman Smith (director of the Art School in 1905). Directors are Gordon H Elliott, Frederick Gurnsey, Archibald F Nicoll and R Wallwork. Archibald F Nicholl painting the portrait of George Harper, 1932; Frank Callaway (Director of King Edward Technical College); Colonel A W Orsborn, new Chief Secretary for Salvation Army in New Zealand, & family, 1933; Canterbury pioneers at Bridle Path Memorial Service - John Chapman, Rev F G Brittan, Richard Evans, 1939. Wynne Smith, song-writer; group photograph of Brigade Commander & Commanding Officers and staff of 6th Infantry Brigade NZEF, 1940 (named on verso); nurses at Waiouru Camp Hospital (named on verso), 1951; Officers and staff of Waiouru military camp, 1951 (named on verso); Senior officers of Dental Services at Burnham (Lt-Col W M Ford, Lt G W Stanley & Major E B Reilly), 1950; Grant-Dalton Trophy awarded to Wellington (No 2) Squadron in 1950 - Leading Aircraftman W M Whitehead with Squadron Leader Oldfield & Group Captain F R Dix; Miss Kane, Mrs Burrell, Mrs Ross & Mr Duckworth Barker UNESCO at Pan-Pacific Conference; group photograph of members of the council of the New Zealand Educational Institute at the annual conference held in Dunedin, 1948 (named on verso); family group photo taken at Hope Gibbons Golden Wedding, 1931. Group photo of Mr A G Harper, Mr & Mrs H B Burdekin, Sir Howard & Lady Kippenberger, General Young, Mr & Mrs W S Lett. Two photographs relating to lighthouse on Portland Island, off Mahia Peninsula (article in NZ Free Lance, 12 Apr 1950, p 17); eight photos and undated letter about life of a New Zealander who married the lighthouse keeper at Pine Islet, Queensland, Australia. Overseas people in the news - John Foster Dulles, President Truman's special representative & Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary, 1951; Harold MacMillan, Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, General Lord Ismay, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, and Lord Leathers, Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport etc; Anthony Eden and others, 1951; Price & Princess Paul of Serbia & baby son; General Eisenhower; Earl Haig; Gladys Cooper & Sir Neville Pearson; group at christening of Sally, daughter of Sir Neville & Lady Pearson (Gladys Cooper); Marshall Tito at Centotaph in Whitehall, 1953; Flight-Lieut George Stainforth; Auriol family; aerial view of Singapore showing Raffles Museum & Library, 1950; Dr Otto Schmidt, 1937; Ruling princes of India in London; Dutch swimmers G Galliard & Irma Schumacher, 1951; Major `Wid' Watson (famous jungle fighter), 1944; Korean internees return to Britain, 1953. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1904-1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-092

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and overseas ships, and New Zealand ports, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1904-1950s. New Zealand related images include: Aerial photograph of Lyttelton Harbour; series of photographs of ports - Ahuriri (Napier), Timaru, Dunedin, Bluff, Gisborne, Wanganui and Waitara. Also: Wreck of iron barqe Antiope (14 Sep); wrecked barque Rewa near Kawau Island; MV Hornby Grange at Auckland prior to departure for Britain; scow Bee stranded at mouth of Puhoi River; schooner Fairburn stranded on Opotiki Bar; coastal steamer Awahou; wrecked NZSCo steamer Tongariro on Bull Rock, off Portland Island (Aug 1916). Series of photographs of the sailing ship Pamir; Orient Line steamers Orsova and Orcades; sailing ship Canterbury in Timaru Harbour, Apr 1904; barque Joseph Craig damaged in Rangitoto Channel tied up at King's Wharf, Auckland, 1912; 2 unidentified ships in NZ waters. Also a number of overseas passenger and cargo ships. Quantity: 47 album leaves with black & white photochemical prints and 2 album leaves with 5 black & white photographic prints. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and photochemical prints

Date: 1913 - 1923

By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985; Taylor, Janet, active 1991; Cameron, Claire, active 1991

Reference: PAColl-2111

Description: Waikokopu Branch Railway; Nuhaka Station yard; Wairoa district scenes; Lake Waikaremoana; WWI transports; eclipse of the sun, 1916 by J H Christie. Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1878

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Dunedin, Australia, and Central Otago] 1872 [and] 1878

Reference: E-032-2-074

Description: Coastal profiles of Portland Island, seen from both sides, one view with a lighthouse visible on top; also of Aldermen Islands Probably drawn on Hodgkins' sea voyage between Australia and New Zealand in October 1878 Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sketchbook page, page size 113 x 188 mm

Date: [between 1889-1910]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020441-G

Description: Scene on Portland Island, Hawke's Bay, taken between 1889-1910 by Henry Wright. Includes houses and a lighthouse. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Dated in relation to the display dates of PAColl-5032. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1867, 1870, 1887, 1888

From: Jeffcoat family : Papers

Reference: MSX-8914

Description: Volume contains financial and personal details for the Jeffcoat family. Diary provides accounts of voyages from Auckland to Napier, sawmilling activities around the Napier region, Maori relations, business transactions, weather, and correspondence with family and business partners (Those named include - Cashmore, Marshall, Sanders, Chambers, Karaitiana, Prentice, Tuley, Holt). Also includes poems written by E J (Elon Jeffcoat) and copied letters (these entries mostly date after 1867), sketches of vessels, and a memorandum of cost of improvements at Cabbage Bay (1870). Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.