Mangahao River

Date: 1909 to 1918

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-008

Description: Photographs supplementary to the 3 MS foolscap volumes of Annals of the Tararua Range (Vol 1, figures 1-146). Images show geology, topography, physiography and flora of the Tararua Ranges. Views of the Tararua Ranges, with peaks named (figs 1-6); ascent of Mt Waiopehu (3588 ft.), 22 Jan 1909 (figs 8-10); 1st crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 13-19 Feb 1909, finishing on a campsite on the farmland of Alfred Deal at Waingawa, also a view of Mr Deal's house, and views of Masterton, including the Masterton Post Office and public gardens (figs 11-45); visit to the High Fall on the Poruriri Ridge near Tokomaru, 30 Oct 1910 (figs 46-49); ascent of Mt Tawirikohukohu (3455 ft) via the Ohau Rover, 18 Dec 1910 (figs 50-52); 3rd ascent of Mt Waiopehu, 3-6 Jan 1911 (Figs 73-76); across the Tararua Range via Palmerston North-Pahiatua Road, 22-23 Jan 1911 (figs 73-76); visit to the Ohau-Mangahao divide via the southern branch of the Ohau River, 12 Feb 1911 (figs 77-83); 2nd crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 9-17 Feb 1911 (figs 84-128); ascent of Te Paki trig station on the Tararua foothils east of Shannon, 10 Dec 1916 (figs 129-132); topography & physiography of the valley of the Makahika, tributary of the Ohau River, 6 Jan 1918 (figs 133-134); 2nd ascent of Te Paki & topography of the Upper Tokomaru Valley, 28 Apr 1918 (figs 135-136); 1st visit to the No.1 gorge on the Mangahao River, 29 Feb 1919 (figs 137-138); topography & physiography of the Waireka & Wainui valleys, 13 Apr 1919 (figs 139-142); physiography of the Poruriri Ridge & Mangaharakeke Falls, on the Tararua western foothills near Tokomaru, 24 Aug 1919 (figs 143-146).

Date: ca 1920s-1950s

By: Nevilles Portraits Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0588

Description: Photographs of the construction of the Mangaore Power Station and the pipes leading from the Mangahao dams, and later construction work in the 1950s. Includes a interior view of the power station and a man standing next to one of the pipes to show the scale. Photographer for the later photographs was Neville's Portraits. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

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.

Date: 1892

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton 1864-1953 :[Sketchbook ca 1890]

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-390-009

Description: A scene on the Mangahao River Other Titles - White cliffs on the Mangahao River .. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - White cliffs on the Mongohao R. Feb 7 1892 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 176 x 253 mm

Date: 1920s

By: Morton, William Bampton, 1885-1957; Morton, Dorothy Alice, 1884-1985

Reference: PAColl-3146

Description: Album and loose prints include photographs of power stations at Horohora, Lake Coleridge, Mangahao, Arapeti, and Tuai. Postcards of Grafton Bridge. Quantity: 1 album(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) (postcards) and. 7 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: 1927-1929

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-006

Description: "Annals of the Tararua Range, Vol 3", photographs no. 283-449, supplementary to the 3 MS foolscap volumes held in Manuscripts and Archives. Photographs include preparations for the construction of the Waiopehu Hut, and views of Mt Waiopehu, in 1927, and the opening of the hut (4 March 1928), with named members of the Levin-Waiopehu Tramping Club, Tararua Tramping Club, and various dignitaries. Discovery of a prehistoric artifact, the Waiopehu flint knife, found 4 February 1928; botanical visit to Mt Waiopehu, images of plant life, February 1928; excursion to the headwaters of the Mangahao River and first ascent of Mt Dora; topography of the Wellington Peninsula, Tararua offshoot, April 1928; ascent of Mt Wainui, April 1928. Visit to Oriwa Lake-Hollow via Mt Waiopehu including the summit of Mt Waiopehu and upper part of its north-leading ridge with Horowhenua lowland in distance. Winter visit to Mt Hector track, August 1928; longitudinal traverse from Otaki Forks to Ohau Valley via Waitatapia River, Oriwa Ridge & Mt Waiopehu, and ascent of Mt Crawford, October 1928. Ascent pf Gable End Knob from Ohau Hut; Mangaharakeke Falls, December 1928; topography of Otaki Gorge, Dec 1928; scenery of the Makaretu River, Feb 1929; attempt to cross Tararua Range via Mt Bannister, views of log-bridge over the Ohau-iti (Blackwater) Stream; ascent of Makahika Trig Station, 13 October 1929, with a combined group from the Hutt Valley, Tararua and Levin-Waiopehu Tramping Clubs.

Date: 23 July 1922

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-001-112

Description: Inlet end of tunnel no 1, Mangahao hydroelectric power project. Photographed by George Leslie Adkin 23 July 1922. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 112. Inlet end of tunnel No 1 showing the double entrance. The portal on the left will be the future permenent intake, that on the right being a temporary one to facilitate the removal of the truck loads of spoil from the working face of the tunnel. 23.7.1922 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 9 x 15.5 cm, mounted on album page.

Date: 1890

Reference: MapColl-832.45bf/[ca. 1890?]/Acc.28699

Description: Original survey plan showing topographical features including the Mangahao River and [Karearea Hill] area, block ten, part of the Woodville - Mangatainoka Block, Mangahao Survey District. Shows several road surveys, survey pegs, and lots 46-58, with acreage. Indicates 'Proposed school residence' and 'Totara Res[erve].' Annotations in ink pen have been aded to the map, for example survey peg marks have survey book page references added alongside them. Some pencil and ink annotations on map. Other Titles - Block 10 (ten) District Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and water colour on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 43 x 47 cm.

Date: 1922, 1923

By: Cooper, Enid, active 1974?; Cooper, Thornhill, active 1974

Reference: PA1-o-108

Description: Shows construction of powerhouse, and dams at Mangahao and Arapeti Other Titles - Cooper album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 22x17 cm red buckram covers entitled "From my camera" in green slip-case

Date: 1916-1921

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-009

Description: Album (1), 1916-1921. Tararuas and Mangahao Hydroelectric power construction (images 1-58). See also Album (2), 1921-1922, Mangahao Hydroelectric Power Scheme (images 59-122), at PA1-q-001. Black and white photographs of various areas in the Tararua Range, including views of the high peaks, the Mangaore Stream, the Horowhenua lowland area from the ridge leading up to Te Paki trig station, the Arapeti Valley from the site of the future Tokomaru Dam (part of the Mangahao Hydroelectric scheme), and the remnants of the Shannon Land & Sawmilling Company sawmill in the Arapeti Valley. Views of a waterfall on the Tokomaru River which was submerged when the dam was completed; views of the jig tramway which connected the terminus of the service road with the bottom of the Mangahao Valley (450 ft descent, approximately 1 in 2 grade); sinking a shaft to test rock formation preparatory to construction of the power scheme.

Date: 1920-1929

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-3

Description: Photographs of trips taken in the countryside, of bridges, rivers, streams, waterfalls, native forest, mountains, coastal scenery and other scenic views. There are pictures of cars and one of a motorcycle with side car. There are prints of two fly fishermen displaying their catch in a net and of a man holding up a large eel. Others show yachts in sail, and men and boys in yachts; adult fun sports at a group outing identified in PAColl-6712-2 as being the "optic championships". Another group are shown playing cricket in the grounds of Days Bay House. There is also a single print of a hunter showing his bag of wild game birds. Animals are represented by cattle and horses, one of the latter associated with two men and a wagon-full of freshly harvested hay, another is harnessed to a coach parked beside a stationary train. A sequence of prints records the dams and lakes of the newly completed Mangahao Hydro in the hills inland from Shannon. Three prints show a ship grounded in coastal shallows. There are portrait and group photographs of people, including children, and one print of a children's party. Several show picnic groups.

Date: 1892

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton 1864-1953 :[Sketchbook ca 1890]

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-390-008

Description: Mangahao River surrounded by hills and trees Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 176 x 253 mm

Date: [1920s]

From: Field, Arthur Nelson : Collection of albums and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-161

Description: Album of photographs (each one 4.5 x 6.5 cm), with views of the North Island. One shows a group of four cars on the Paekakariki Hill Road; others show camping sites, landscapes and the Duchess (yacht). A number of people are shown, but are not clearly identified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown mock-crocodile cover, entitled "Photographs"; 13.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1890

By: New Zealand. General Assembly Library

Reference: MapColl-832.45gmbj/1890/Acc.32209-10

Description: Drawn on a base map, the annotations show bridges, both built and proposed, on the Mangahao, Mangatainoka and the Makakahi rivers, near Pahiatua. Three of the six existing bridges are named - Mangahao, Mangatainoka and Tutaekara. Two proposed bridges are sited on Mangahao Valley Road. Written on map in pencil 'Special purposes'. Stamped on map 'General Assembly Library'. The accompanying letter (MapColl-832.45gmbj/1890/Acc.32210) was written by under Secretary of Lands and Surveys to the Chairman of the Waste Lands Committee, regarding a petition for another bridge across the Mangahao River. Recto of letter: annotation reads: '1899 Waste Land Dep[artmen]t Report on Pet[ition] 474 Thos ?Dorey and 33 others'. Base map: [Part of unknown map] ([s.l], [s.n], [s.d]). Quantity: 1 map(s). 1 accompanying letter. Physical Description: Ink on paper, scale indeterminable, 34.5 x 24.2 cm.

Date: 1921-1922

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-001

Description: Album (2), 1921-1922, Mangahao Hydro-electric scheme, images 59-122. Album showing the development of construction of the Mangahao Hydro-electric power scheme, with all aspects, including service roads, the sawmill supplying timber for buildings and other requirements of construction, work camps, the tunnels for water pipes. See also Album (1) 1916-1921, Tararuas & Mangahao Hydro-Electric construction, images 1-58 (at PA1-o-009).

Date: 1924-1926

By: Earle, Laurence Edward, 1896-1980; Earle, Richard Laurence, 1930-

Reference: PA-Group-00976

Description: Photograph albums and negatives taken by Lawrence Edward Earle circa 1924 to 1926, relating to his work with the Public Works Department. Images particularly relate to his time as a supervisor for the construction of electricity transmission lines. Images include work camps, the interior and exterior of Mangahao powerhouse, and construction of electrical transmission equipment, including power pylons (known at the time as 'towers'). They were taken at a range of places in the North Island. Some negatives match the images in the albums. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 59 black and white prints. 14 b&w original negative(s). 1 album(s). Provenance: Donor is the son of L E Earle. Processing information: Not all names associated with this collection have been indexed.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1957-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over the Mangahao Power Station centre foreground, pipelines coming down from the hills on the right. Houses and workmen's huts on the left. Power lines from the hydro station up hill in centre and across hills to the left. Rugged hills in the background, some bush-clad. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Mangahoe Works [i.e. Mangahao Works]. Mangahoe Electric Power Station [i.e. Mangahao Electric Power Station]. No. 718. New Zealand; Marginal notes on negative - Mangahoe [i.e. Mangahao] Power Station. 1 oils. 1 B&W Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 104.0 cm

Date: 1978 - 1979

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1979-1

Description: Calendars include - Clutha Calendar 1979. Twelve black and white portraits photographed by Robin Morrison, of people from Cromwell, Lowburn, Bannockburn, and Northburn. They are in the landscape, in their houses, or outside buildings, all to be affected by the hydroelectric lake flooding the area. Published by Alister Taylor, Martinborough, Wairarapa. (2 copies). Bryce Francis Limited [printers, Wellington]. Twelve scenic views in colour, of New Zealand Landscapes, lakes, and cites. These include - The Kawarau River. Lake Rotoiti. Fishing fleet, Riverton. Auckland waterfront. Carey's Bay, Dunedin. Mount Ruapehu. Lyttelton Harbour. Mangahao River, Wairarapa. Lake Pukaki. Tutukaka Harbour. Riwaka Valley. Taupo Motor Camp. Produced by Tanner and Couch Calendars (1975) Ltd. [Ken?] Douglas [Ltd]. Divisions: Sincro Engineering, Ready Mixed Concrete, Agregate. Twelve black and white prints from historical photographs of Levin, Otaki, and surrounding areas dating from 1900 to ca 1930. Printed or produced by Goodwill Agencies Limited. (2 copies). BP New Zealand Limited, Wellington. Six colour prints from watercolour views of New Zealand from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Printed by Clark & Matheson Ltd. Historical Wanganui. Twelve black and white prints of drawings of mainly historic houses in Wanganui. Other subjects include - Meeting relating to the sale of Whanganui, 19 May 1840. Clock tower in Cook's Gardens. Kawana Flour Mill built in 1854. The second Christchurch built in 1866. Published by the Wanganui Historical Society, Quantity: 5 calendars. Two duplicates.. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes.

Date: 6 May 1999 - 06 May 1999

By: Martin, Maureen Ellen Patricia, 1923-1999

Reference: OHColl-0458/1

Description: Maureen Martin was born in Hawera in 1923. Gives details of her Irish background. Describes how her father worked for the Public Works Department on dams and tunnels throughout the North Island. Talks about the Mangahao Dam Public Works Camp where Maureen lived in early childhood. Notes that her father was working as a tunneller on the Tawa Deviation. Discusses his interest in politics and the effect on him of World War I. Focuses on her childhood in the Khandallah Public Works Camp from 1928 to 1940. Includes detailed information about their home, family, school, games, camp and social life. Comments on attitudes towards the camp. Discusses employment after leaving school, particularly her work at the Prestige Hosiery Factory in Wellington. Interviewer(s) - Pip Desmond Accompanying material - Transcript of an interview with Maureen Martin by her grandson Liam Martin about the 1951 watersiders strike Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007157 - OHC-007159 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1763. Photos of Maureen Martin from 1926 to 1943; photos of the Mangahao Dam public Works Camp and the Khandallah Public Works Camp in the 1920s

Date: 1929-1933, 1974-1975

By: Thomson, William Sidney, 1908-1922

Reference: PA-Group-00860

Description: Photographs, particularly of hydroelectric power stations in New Zealand, taken between 1929-1933 by Scotsman W S Thomson. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Letter from donor of 30 June 2013 reads "I do not know the details of his [W S Thompson] work at the power stations - whether work placements connected with his course or vacation jobs". See Thomson's name record for further information on his life, studies and work. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 newspaper cutting. Physical Description: Pages of a photograph album, photographic print, newspaper cutting Provenance: Donated by Jean Asher in two accessions (April and July), 2013. Donor is Thomson's daughter. Transfers: From Book Collections - Asher, Jean: Photograph and newspaper clipping relating to Mangahao Power station.