Kime Hut (Tararua Forest Park, N.Z.)

Date: [Between 1927 and 1965]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-113

Description: Album includes photographs, chiefly taken by Gerald Rainsford Craddock, from black and white photographs taken in the 1920s to coloured snapshots taken in the 1960s. Subjects range from scout camps and tramps in New Zealand, to views of military aircraft and scenic views of India, Egypt and Libya taken circa 1940-1943 while he was serving with R.A.F. squadrons. Later coloured snapshots show holiday scenes. The photographs are interspersed with postcards. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled red and black cover, black corners and spine, 24 x 34 cm

By: Neill, Wally, active 1936-1962

Reference: PAColl-5121

Description: Many, but not all, photographs taken by W Neill. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-021141 to 021195. Quantity: 54 b&w original negative(s). Transfers: 10x8 prints from some of the negs are at PAColl-0825..

Date: 1929-1948

By: Kendall, Leslie Frank, active 1920-1950

Reference: PA1-o-717

Description: Album compiled by Lesley Frank Kendall. The first section relates to tramping and the Mount Egmont Alpine Club. This includes - A large group of people on a mountain tramp ca 1929. Climbers on Mount Egmont. Building the first Syme Hut on Fantham's Peak, Mount Egmont, 1930. Military training camp at Long Bay. Emerson Street, Napier, in ruins, 1931. Two men on a motorcycle holiday. Group of photographs of the Wairarapa and Tararua Ranges. This includes - Men hunting in the Palliser Bay area. Views of the Rimutaka Range and road. Climbers on Mount Hector, Tararua Range, and at Kime and Field's huts. View of the Balclutha road bridge (built between 1933 and 1935). Kendall family members and a motor holiday in Central Otago ca 1936. This group also includes Queentown, the Buller Gorge, the DH 86 aircraft `Karoro,' and Canterbury. Views of Napier rebuilt. Sports matches include - New Zealand versus India, hockey, 1938. Otago versus Canterbury, rugby (probably Ranfurly Shield) 1938. Photograph group relating to a holiday in Auckland. Photograph group relating to a holiday at The Portage, Kenepuru Sound, Marlborough. Family gathering. Lesley Kendall in military uniform and Norma Clout on their wedding day, ca 1940. Group of photographs of unidentified children, people and places. Pig hunting trip, locality unidentified. Group of photographs of Lesley and Norma Kendall's first baby. Holiday on the South Island's West Coast. Wanganella on Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour, 1948. Views of Ohinemutu and Whakarewarewa. Group of photographs relating to the Royal New Zealand Air Force training school at Levin, Second World War. Family photographs, views of Wellington, the Putangirua Pinnacles Palliser Bay, and Picton. Groups of people on holiday at Paraparaumu, 1930s. Groups of people on a day out at Ohariu Valley, Wellington, 1930s. Wellington College Mod. VB class, 1929. Lesley Kendall with athletic trophies for the 1929-1930 season. Family photographs, 1920s-1940s. House on Maungakiekie Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland. Group photograph of a dance party, Mount Eden, Auckland, 1930s. Two photographs of New Zealand Air Force groups, Second World war. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1930, 19939

By: Lyons, Bill, active 1930-1939; Calcinaii, V, active 1976

Reference: PAColl-0157

Description: 24 photographs show the building of Kime Hut, Tararua ranges. 1 illustrates pitsawing at Field Hut, Tararua Ranges. The rest of deer hunting expeditions. 1/2-068565 to 068573 Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1900-1946

By: Neill, Wally, active 1936-1962; Lawlor, Thomas Joseph, 1882-1960; Luke, Monte, 1885-1967

Reference: PAColl-0514

Description: Set of five photographs with captions of tramping trips in the Tararua 1930-1940; portraits of Walter Burke, George Lambert, and Herbert Evatt, the last two taken by Monte Luke; photographs by Thomas Lawlor of St Mary's Church, Timaru, Lake Te Anau, and the steps approaching the Nelson Cathedral; and a bridge over a river near Greymouth. Complete total of photographs unknown Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 13 Sep 2011

From: Tararua Tramping Club oral history project, 2010-2011

By: Baine, Ian, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-1007-01

Description: Interview with Ian Baine about his experiences as a long-term member of the Tararua Tramping Club. Comments that his father Jack was an inaugural member of the Club in 1919 and led the first winter crossing of the southern Tararuas in 1922. Mentions his mother was also an early member of the Club and was in the first Southern Crossing with women (and chaperones) in the party. Refers to his father being a ranger for the Water Board and having a hut off the Wainuiomata Road. Talks about trips in the Wainuiomata and Eastbourne area when he was a child. Recalls Club members building huts and maintaining difficult tracks until the Department of Conservation (DOC) took over. Discusses search and rescue operations and tramping club members carrying out the dead from the crash of a [Lockheed] Lodestar [in 1949, in the Tararuas behind Waikanae]. Refers to skiing from Kime Hutt [in the Tararuas] in 1947, and the club moving to Ruapehu where he won many cups. Outlines the development of ski tows and lifts at Ruapehu in the 1950s and the evolution of skiing. Mentions a tramping trip in the Nelson area in 1948/49, and an alpine trip the following year from the Hermitage over saddles to Franz Joseph Glacier. Refers to attending an alpine instruction course in the South Island and equipment used. Comments on going to Europe for his work in 1955 where he climbed, skied and met his future wife. Reflects on injuries he has suffered skiing and tramping and friends who have been killed in accidents. Interviewer(s) - Howard Taylor Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDV-0041 - OHDV-0043 (field recordings) Tape numbers - OHDV-0044 (edited master) Quantity: 3 videocassette(s). 1 videocassette(s) Videocassette. 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract; list of photographs). 202 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 80 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s). 2.21 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7592, OHDL-001773. Scanned black and white photographs from Ian Baine's albums of tramping, mountaineering and skiing trips and of his life. List of photographs available Search dates: 2011

Date: 1951

From: Tararua Tramping Club : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-5813-12

Description: Includes Kime hut Quantity: 1 folder(s) (file).

Date: Jan 1978-May 1979

From: Tararua Tramping Club : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-5813-14

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (file).

Date: 1944-1948

From: Tararua Tramping Club : Records

Reference: MSX-0964

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1929-1964

From: Tararua Tramping Club : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1858-153

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: Jan 1930

From: Neill, W T :Negatives and prints of tramping in the Tararuas.

Reference: 1/4-021178-F

Description: Watering horses, on completion of the first load, during the construction of Kime Hut, Tararua Range, January 1930. Shows Bill Boyle with Bess and Wally Neill with Ben and Whitey. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on mount at PAColl-0825-15 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: February 1978

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Recreation-Mountaineering-04

Description: Men working on the construction of the second Kime Hut in February 1978, Tararua Range. A helicopter hovers above the site. Photographed by an unknown photographer. This photograph was published in the Evening Post 18 February 1978 As seen here the hut is being clad in plywood sheets. The exterior was then covered in corrugated iron (see Tararua Tramping Club web site). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.3 x 17.7 cm