Fort Ballance (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: 17 May 1990

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

Reference: EP/1990/1756-F

Description: Defence Department houses at Fort Balance, Miramar, Wellington, that have been put up for sale. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Mark Round on the 17th of May 1990. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1914 - 1916

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWI-1914/1916

Description: Includes: 1914-1918: With every good wish. "Some of the boys". A cheery greeting for Christmas and the New year from Willie (Shows photo of Salisbury Cathedral from the river) [1914-1918] 1914: Quo fas et Gloria ducunt. New Zealand Engineers no 4 Field Company. Samoa 1914. (From John Fairhurst Dickie) 1914: No. 5, G.A.T. (Petone Navals). With the compliments of the season. Fort Ballance, Wellington NZ, 1914-15 (To Hellard, from Rae, 28-12-14) 1915: A Christmas gift with Christmas greetings to the men of Canterbury NZ, fighting for the Empire. From the editor and readers of "The Press", Christchurch New Zealand. (Folded card) 1915: The Season's greetings from the Briny Deep HMNZT no.... 8th Reinforcements, NZ Expeditionary Force 1915-1916 1916: Christmas greetings. Parfum aux fleurs d'Anemones, Sidenet, Paris (Embroidered card with message to Gwn from Charley, 10/10/16 in France) 1916: 1st NZ Field Ambulance. Wishing all a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. Xmas Dec 25th 1916. Toast list and Xmas Day rations. Hazelbroock, imp Stoven[?] 1916: Heartiest greetings, Xmas & New Year 1916-1917. "The tide has turned; Rua timu te tai" Somewhere in France. (2 copies) 1916: A kiss from France [Embroidered postcard sent to Mr & Mrs Mills. 1916] 1916: North Sea Xmas 1916. H.M.A.S. Australia. Caldwell Bros Ld, Edinburgh, 1916. 1916: Season's greetings from Colonel C E R Mackesy and Officers of the Auckland Mounted Rifles. Postcard with written message from Andrew Davidson [Undated 1916?]: NZ New Zealand; from the front to Rene with love (Embroidered postcard) [ca 1916-1917] [Undated 1916?]: New Zealand NZ Onwards (Embroidered postcard) [to Ethel from Dick] Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 3 embroidered cards. 2 colour art print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and engravings on cards, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 14 Dec 1994

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Saunders, Alfred Carr, 1911-2010

Reference: OHInt-0444-06

Description: Alfred Saunders born at Point Halswell, Wellington 1911. Recalls his father was an artilleryman in the army, stationed at the Point to look after the large gun there. Talks about growing up on the Miramar Peninsula, Fort Ballance and other forts around the harbour. Also talks about period when father left the army and they moved to Whangaroa where his father took up crayfishing. Recalls leaving school at the age of 15 years and commencing an apprenticeship as a shipwright with B J L Jukes Ltd, a boatbuilder in Balena Bay, Wellington. Describes his duties as an apprentice and explains that many of the boats worked on at the yard belonged to Island Bay and Eastbourne fishermen. Mentions living at Paraparaumu where he built a 40 foot fishing vessel called `May' for a Mr Buckland at Plimmerton during the Great Depression. Refers to his work during World War II, describing some of the vessels he worked on which were commandeered by the navy. After the war went fishing from Paremata and details type of fishing and fish caught. Describes location of his boat yard at Paremata foreshore where he built a number of fishing and pleasure craft. Talks about the Sea Reaper, a vessel of 50 feet in length that he built and operated with his sons during the 1960s. Talks about the crayfish boom at the Chathams and the big demand for vessels. Mentions some of the problems encountered with the Marine Department surveyors and the modern fishing regulations. Talks about son, Harold, who has a boatbuilding business in Tory Channel in the Marlborough Sounds. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 54 Paremata Road Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010226-010227 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3415.

Date: 1992, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-12256

Description: Transparencies of concrete construction in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the concrete structure. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Buildings/structures and locations annotated on the slide mounts include Blue Baths at Rotorua, old cement kilns at Tarakohe, No. 5 pumphouse at Waihi, Crown Battery remains at Karangahake, concrete ford near Tangiteroria, former freezing works at Hicks Bay, former freezing works office at Waipaoa, Fort Ballance in Wellington, water tower and detail of plaque on water tower at New Zealand Railway Workshops in Addington in Christchurch. Title supplied by Library. Few slides have dates annotated Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a six-row, 43 slides per row, metal case. The case was not labelled; the order appears have begun as largely alphabetical by location, name of building/structure, or name of station/farm; however, arrangement becomes more disordered in the last two rows of the case. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1992-1993, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-12254

Description: Transparencies of concrete construction in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the concrete structure. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Buildings/structures and locations annotated on the slide mounts include house in Mercer Road near Waitepeka, ruins of concrete cottage on Mercer Road "Waitawheta" [probably Waitepeka], Bastion Hill water tower at Wanganui, Riverina [Wilson house] at Warkworth, 'Little Riverina' house at Warkworth, Racing Club grandstand at Waverley, Overton [at Marton], various aspects of Fort Ballance in Wellington, and former Clayton house at Queen Margaret College in Wellington. Title supplied by Library. Few slides have dates annotated Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a six-row, 43 slides per row, metal case. The case was not labelled; the order appears have begun as largely alphabetical by location, name of building/structure, or name of station/farm; however, arrangement becomes more disordered in the last two rows of the case. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1992, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-12255

Description: Transparencies of concrete construction in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the concrete structure. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Buildings/structures and locations annotated on the slide mounts include Fort Ballance in Wellington, building in Swan Lane/Cuba Street in Wellington, Upland Road retaining wall in Wellington, Plunket Street retaining wall in Wellington, upper dam Karori [reservoir] in Wellington, 4 Goldies Brae in Wellington, St Mary of the Angels Church in Wellington, old grandstand at the Basin Reserve in Wellington, sea wall at Lyall Bay in Wellington, Bradley's hop kiln remains near Dovedale, hop kiln at Hoult Valley Road in Wai-iti, T Ewer's hop kiln at Upper Moutere, and 'Tudor Towers' [The Bath House] at Rotorua. Title supplied by Library. Few slides have dates annotated Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a six-row, 43 slides per row, metal case. The case was not labelled; the order appears have begun as largely alphabetical by location, name of building/structure, or name of station/farm; however, arrangement becomes more disordered in the last two rows of the case. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1978, 1992, 1995, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-12260

Description: Transparencies of concrete construction in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name or brief description, and/or the location, of the concrete structure. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Buildings/structures and locations annotated on the slide mounts include former Nelson Moate Building in Wellington, Green Hayes in Temuka, Devonport Flats in New Plymouth, Desco building in Napier, Mangahao Powerhouse near Shannon, exterior and interior of Tauroa in Havelock North, house at 4 Goldies Brae in Wellington, house at 4 Kingsview Road in Auckland, former Triumph Dairy Factory at Ngaere, house at 1 Grosvenor Terrace in Wellington, Fort Ballance in Wellington, Blue Baths in Rotorua, Overton near Marton, house at 7 Dexter Avenue in Auckland, tower of Clifton House in Auckland, ruin of flax mill at Opiki, Mercerdale cottage near Waitepeka, and judge Chapman's house in Dunedin. Title supplied by Library. Few slides have dates annotated Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a small plastic slide case, capable of holding 20-30 mounted slides, labelled "Concrete book Bldgs". There was no apparent order. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1965-1990s

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PAColl-10686-07

Description: Photographic prints of concrete buildings and structures in the North and South Islands of New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton 1965 to 1990s. Some prints are labelled on the reverse; some have been marked up as if for publication. There are often several images of the same building or structure from different perspectives. Includes photographs of commercial and residential buildings, bridges, retaining walls, dams, and structures such as mine cyanide tanks, water towers, and gun emplacements. Date range is taken from the few dates annotated on the back of prints or on negative enclosures. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints were together with negatives in labelled glassine bags, arranged in largely alphabetical order by name of farm or station, in a small wooden drawer. Bags were labelled with the farm or station name and type of building on the left-hand side of the bag and the location on the right-hand side. Quantity: 375 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: Negatives separated from prints are at Library references 1/4-136601 to 1/4-136990 inclusive, and 35mm-114101. Transparencies separated from the prints are at PA12-4281.. Processing information: Negatives, prints, and transparencies were separated and rehoused for reasons of preservation and appropriate storage. Not all names associated with this item have been indexed.

Date: 5 Oct 1994 - 05 Oct 1994

From: History of the Army in New Zealand during World War II

By: Dyer, Bruce Raymond, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0571/10

Description: Bruce Raymond Dyer born Palmerston North. Recalls being called up for service in 1941 and describes training at Waiouru camp for three months followed by Fort Ballance with 10th Heavy Regiment until end of 1944 when he turned 21 years and went to Trentham camp. Talks about military manoeuvres; Fort Dorset; dangle parade; conditions of barracks and Japanese breakout [from Featherston camp]. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Dick Linnell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008035 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2197.

Date: [ca 1884]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140344-G

Description: Gun emplacement at Fort Ballance, Wellington, 1884. Photograph taken by William Williams. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1950s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5936-59

Description: Fort Ballance, Scorching Bay, Wellington, circa 1950s. Taken by unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 1887]

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

Reference: 1/1-020667-G

Description: Looking east at Scorching Bay, Wellington, showing Fort Ballance. Taken circa 1887. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).