Hinehopu Track

Date: [ca 1910s]

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Frank Duncan and Company

Reference: PAColl-9562

Description: Postcard of Hongi's Track, Rotorua, taken 1911 by Frederick George Radcliffe. Published by Frank Duncan & Co. Shows a man with a staff and swag walking on a track through native bush. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2009 Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - Edward Sandys. Hongi's Track, Rotorua, NZ (C-075-016).

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-207

Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1939 to 1950

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-237

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Sir Thomas Hunter, between 1939 and 1950. Many of the scenes show camping holidays, with camping sites at Whangamata (two holidays, January 13-29, 1939; and January 26 to February 16 1940), Gisborne, Wairoa, Napier, Palmerston North, Taupo, and Waikanae. The album is split in two, with half starting at one end, and the other half starting upside down at the other end of the album (tete-beche). Two photographs show Thomas Hunter with his son Irwin wearing army uniform, taken in 1940. The last few scenes are of Thomas Hunter's home at 10 Clermont Terrace, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, lacks cover; 18.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-224

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1947. Duck shooting at Lake Ellesmere; sign of the Pick and Shovel at Gabriel's Gully; disabled soldiers in wheelchairs watching a horse race; first aid clinic; locomotive having its tender filled with coal at Paekakariki; Herekino State Forest; Lake Wakatipu; The Chateau; Mount Ruapehu; Vogeltown Bowling Club, New Plymouth; Youth Travel Association party at Waiouru; rugby referees examinations held in Wellington (G R Penhale & D Chant); Hilton Thomassen and Jimmy Black of Taneatua Bowling Club, Whakatane (tallest & shortest players). House moving (Dr H B Berney's surgery, Masterton); Horsa Glider home and houseboats (England); Silver Jubilee display of sewing done by Correspondence School pupils held at Central Library, Wellington; English family building their own home; Les Curtice sounding the Last Post; Rehabilitation Committee meeting; R J Jacobs & C O Bell laying a wreath at the Cenotaph, Wellington (view of shops in lower Molesworth Street in background). Series of photographs taken at Ruatoki - Jim Merritt (Native Department supervisor), Rev Rangi (Maori Battalion padre), Takerau Tamerau (paramount chief of Tuhoe) and others. Series of photographs relating to the Post Office training school courses. Named participants included K R Murray, G H Glozier, T J Nixon, H McLachland, R W Hundy, D C Mundy, L W Palmer, H C Waterhouse, A J L Hamilton, B Story, R Innes, T Collins, A S Beck, R Cleary. Courses included engineering, morse code, switch board operators, automatic exchange switches; dismantling and testing telephones, etc. Helicopters (United States); Naseby (children's fancy dress parade); Tekapo; Country Library Service (librarian-driver Evelyn Franklin of Waikato, Coronation Library at Little River, and bus at Gropers Bush); Series of photographs relating to the Government Home Aid Scheme and day in the life of employee Edna Chandler. WAACS for welfare work in Japan - Subaltern J N Bullard & Junior Commander W M White; Pat Pysden and Pear Hunt; on parade (Ruth Ransfield, Margaret Bown and Doris Dempsey); Quartermaster-Sgt M V Wilson and P Cronin; Yvonne Trainor. Hine Hopu (carved guardian on Hongi's Track); Thomas Burn's statue in The Octagon, Dunedin; Young woman planting cauliflowers at Waimate farm; deerstalker's camp in Woodgrove district, North Canterbury; boy scouts in France; hikers on road to Milford Hotel; hydro-electric generating plant at Karapiro; holiday makers on board launch in Marlborough Sounds; Deepwater Cove, Bay of Islands; speed boat racing at New Plymouth; Pelorous Bridge; mayor of New Plymouth Mr Gilmour at civic reception held in Pukekura Park. Opening of the air service between New Zealand and Canada - Captain I N Holyman, managing director of Australian National Airways receiving first mail from Hon F S Hackett, Postmaster General; J A C Allum, Mayor of Auckland and Captain P Taylor. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1957 - 1958

From: [Turner, Dennis Knight], 1924-2011 :[Illustrations for Legends of Rotorua and the hot lakes. 1958?]

Reference: A-060-076

Description: Depicts a large war canoe being dragged overland to Lake Rotoiti on what later became known as Hongi's Track Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink, 302 x 198 cm on sheet 380 x 280 cm

Date: 1946-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-173

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Government Tourist Gardens and Bath House at Rotorua; pataka at Whakarewarewa; tourists at Whakarewarewa (including couple being welcomed to the village & showing their Volkswagen car in foreground); Lake Rotorua; Lake Rotoma; Lake Rotoehu; Hongis Track Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1970s-1980s]

From: Mitchell, Margo, active 1960s-2018: Photographs of New Zealand buildings, roads, and industry

By: Lawson, R A, active 1962

Reference: PAColl-10610-2

Description: Photographic images of roads, state highways, public and historic buildings, churches, libraries, and trees. Includes Larnach Castle; Gisborne Boys High School Library; Hinehopu Track (also known as Hongi's Track); Wairakei Geothemal Power Station; and Wairoa Public Library. Photographs have captions on the back, which discuss the image (including construction details for roads and buildings) and include camera and film used Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 10 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour prints on board; various sizes.

Date: [1888-1940s]

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Sinclair, J C, active 1891; Speight, Robert, 1867-1949; Bartlett & Andrew Ltd; Stewart, (Mr?), active 1897?

Reference: PAColl-10460-16

Description: Photographic portraits taken by various photographers including the Tanner Brothers, J. C. Sinclair, J. Russel and Sons, E. D. Burt, and Steele Photography, taken circa 1888-1940s. Comprises images of Māori men, the Mair brothers, women, landscapes, sites, and flowers. Includes: - Two images of Paora Tuhaere (wearing a kaitaka style cloak), one is a postcard from the "Tanner Brothers Ltd Photographic Series". - An image of Sidney (Hirini) Taiwhanga (standing), and Hare Te [Kaihu?] (dressed in a kaitaka), taken by the New Zealand Tourist Department. - Nakora and Hare Hongi, taken in 1898, by J. C. Sinclair of New Plymouth. This has inscriptions on the back written by Henry Stowell (Hare Hongi), including "Taranaki Hawera" and "Nakora Te Manukarioi - ? 1889" - Four prints of 'Pieces of eight' - A clipping of an image of a painting of Eruera Maihi Patuone, a postcard of "Montreal - Big John and party shooting the Lachine Rapids", a postcard of "The Real South Africa" showing a photograph of a woman preparing locusts and children eating them. The postcard includes part of a letter [to James Cowan?] from Henry [Cowan]. An image of Samuel Butler (by J. Russell and Sons), and two copies of an image of Samuel Butler's homestead "at Mesopotamia, on the foothills of the Southern Alps" taken by Professor Speight, Canterbury University College. - A Real Photo Postcard of Hongi's Track, Rotorua. - An image of King Tawhiao, taken in 1888 at Napier, and four men on horses, including Gilbert Mair[?] and three Māori men, relating to "Urewera chapter". - Lake Tamaiti-o-Waikareiti, taken by E. D. Burt, two images of a church (one is the Roman Catholic Church at Rangiaowhia), and one of a car behind a tree. - Two images of flowers [lillies, and bottle brush?]. - A hand-coloured image of S. Percy Smith, taken by Bartlett and Andrew. - A series of photographs of "The Mair brothers" including Gilbert Mair on a horse, one of him in an army uniform taken in 1920 by Stewart (a photographer in Rotorua), and one includes Mair sitting at a table outside of a wharenui, next to Apirana Ngata. Also includes an image of Mokoia Island, and an unidentified Māori man dressed in a kahu kiwi and a short woven korowai around his waist. - A clipping of a photograph of Gilbert Mair, a card with notes about "Captain Mair at Ngahuinga, Harehare, 1920" and two postcards of Parnell Rose Gardens in Auckland, showing Rangitoto Island, and The Mission Church, Wairoa, before the Tarawera Eruption. - A portrait of Eileen Cowan's sister Mary Mollie Stowell[?] taken by Steele Photography circa 1940s. - A portrait of a woman in Victorian clothing with a lace collar and cameo broach. The photograph is on a backing board which is cracked at the top (image is also damaged). On the back of the board are the words "love everlasting" in pencil. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 envelopes. Processing information: The frame for PAColl-10460-16-38 was removed and disposed of, during processing.

Date: 1910 - 1919

By: Cowan, Eileen Constance, 1892-1968

Reference: A-138-048

Description: A view of Hongi's Track through bush Title from verso in James Cowan's hand Inscriptions: Signed: E Cowan Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink drawing 210 x 150 mm

Date: 1956 - 1962

By: Watkins, Douglas James, 1925-2012; New Zealand Forest Service

Reference: B-051-022-a

Description: Two men with backpacks near a car on a narrow road amidst native bush Number 2 in a series of 14 posters published by the New Zealand Forest Service 1956-1962. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Two-colour offset reproduction from scraper board drawing, 440 x 320 mm

Date: 6 Jan 1960

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-52183

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: 6 Jan 1960

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-52186

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: 1929

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0948-1/2-G

Description: View of Hongis Track, in the mid to late 1920s. Two women are seated in the left foreground (the one on the left wearing a hat is the photographer's wife Laura Godber). Two unidentified men are seated beneath a very tall tree, and there is a car (possibly a Buick) with chauffeur waiting in the middle distance. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1929. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1911 - 1915

By: Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, 1845-; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Perry, John F, 1943-

Reference: C-075-016

Description: Charcoal drawing based on a photograph by F G Radcliffe February-March 1911, shows a man with a staff and swag walking on a well-formed level track through native bush. A postcard issued by Frank Duncan, of a F G Radcliffe photograph F.G.R. 2615 (February-March 1911), appears to be the basis of the drawing. Caption on backing board (not retained): Hongi's Track, Rotorua, N.Z. / Sir Edwin Sandys Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Hongi's Track, Rotorua, N.Z. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal drawing, 570 x 430 mm, on sheet 620 x 470 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by John Perry. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph by F G Radcliffe, FGR 2615. - The postcard came with the drawing, and has been transferred to the Photographic Archive, at PAColl-9562.. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: [ca1908]

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-179-54-1

Description: View through bush on Hongi's Track. Two men are seated on a tree stump, and a bush covered mountain rises behind them. Photographed by Thomas Pringle in about 1908. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Hongi's Track Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 14.4 x 10.6 cm

Date: 1956 - 1962

By: Watkins, Douglas James, 1925-2012; New Zealand Forest Service

Reference: B-051-022

Description: Two men with backpacks near a car on a narrow road amidst native bush Number 2 in a series of 14 posters published by the New Zealand Forest Service 1956-1962. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Two-colour offset reproduction from scraper board drawing, 440 x 320 mm

Date: Oct 1950

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: 1/2-019782-F

Description: Wishing tree, Hongi's track, Rotorua, October 1950, photographed for the National Publicity Studios by E P Christensen. Shows (tourists?) standing alongside. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 2 Jan 1956

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-40513-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate

Date: 2 Jan 1956

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-40512-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate