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351 x 265 mm. A view from the river bank looking along the bridge. Additional information on the caption states: ‘This is a combined road and railway bridge over the River Rakaia, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, on the main trunk line between Christchurch and Dunedin. The total length, 4,480 feet, made up of 224 spans of 20 feet each. The first contract was let on the 7th October, 1869, and the bridge was completed for railway traffic on 29th May, 1873; cost, about £36,000’.

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196 x 136 mm. A view of the small settlement of Ranana, or London, looking down from the hillside. An assembly house stands in a central position with an open space in front of it, while around this are grouped the inhabitants’ houses.

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209 x 148 mm. Captioned. A view looking across the Rangitoto Channel towards the extinct volcanic island of Rangitoto. In the foreground on the North Shore, a small hill marks the location of another extinct volcano with houses and gardens beyond. Photograph by Beattie and Sanderson, Auckland. (Protected 23.11.97).

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Archives relating to a mission to South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada undertaken by Sir Henry Rider Haggard on behalf of the RCI to investigate possibilities of post WWI settlement of ex-servicemen. Haggard's report was published as 'The After-War Settlement & Employment of Ex-Service Men in the Overseas Dominions' in 1916.

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This file contains correspondence, notes, brochures, receipts, lists, and itineraries relating to the Smedley’s holidays in New Zealand (circa 100 sheets).

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193 x 141 mm. A view looking along the valley floor, along which a small river meanders with mountain ranges in the distance.

Scope and Contents A photocopy of a report in Maori by Parakaia Te Pouepa of a meeting of chiefs from Manawatu (Palmerston North), Waikanae, Otaki, Ngati Toa of Porirua, Waikato and Te Arawa (Roturua area) at Otaki on 17 September 1861. The meeting discussed the setting up of a Maori King in the Waikato Area. Most of the chiefs were opposed to this idea, and accepted Queen Victoria's representative, Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, as the chief of the country. They passed a motion that a letter should be written...

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Slides taken during a visit which included New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert Islands and New Caledonia.

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74 x 74mm. Tour members standing on the footplate of a steam locomotive.

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74 x 56mm. A view looking along a small river, with hills on either side.

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75 x 54mm. A view looking down onto a bubbling mud pool. The 'roses' of the caption refer to shapes made by the bubbling mud.

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123 x 196 mm. A view looking down the temporarily inactive mouth of the geyser.

Scope and Contents 240 x 191 mm. A view showing part of the Pink Terrace Cascade. ‘Its terraces, formed of a peculiar pink-coloured siliceous deposit, extend by gentle descents, one below the other, down to the edge of the lake… ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ by D.L. Mundy and F. Von Hochstetter (Sampson Low, London 1875). The terraces were destroyed in the volcanic eruption of 1886, for more details of which, and a photograph of the collapsed terraces, see 308A/131. See also New Zealand...

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240 x 192 mm. A view showing the lower terraces of the White Terrace Cascade (or ‘Te Tarata’ – tattooed Rock) with a Maori sitting in one of the pools in the saucer-like formations. Just above this terrace (not in the picture) is a geyser, the chemically impregnated water from which formed the terraces. Like the Pink Terrace, it too was destroyed in the eruption of 1886.

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206 x 140 mm. A view along the lakeside looking towards the geysers and mineral terraces from which steam is rising. For other pictures and for contemporary descriptions of these phenomena, which were largely destroyed in the eruption of 1886, see Y308B/99-104, New Zealand postcards 100-111 and Y308A/131.

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A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.

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187 x 148 mm. A view looking across one of the boiling pools of mud in the Rotomahana district, with hills in the background.

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A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.

Scope and Contents 254 x 195 mm. A view showing the mud lake, dotted with craters of mud and with steam rising from the hillside behind. In a reproduction of this print in Hochstetter (1875), the steam rising from the hills has been retouched to make it more visible:'The bottom of the ravine consists chiefly of mud in a fluid state ... farther on are numerous small mud cones, from two to five feet in height, some of which, like miniature volcanoes, throw up hot mud from their craters, with a deadened,...

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245 x 180 mm. A view showing the boiling geyser at the summit of the White Terrace with a Maori sitting on a rock above the geyser and steam rising from the surface, ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ by D.L. Mundy and F. Von Hochstetter (Sampson Low, London, 1875).

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242 x 171 mm. Another view of the White Terrace, looking along the formation with the steaming geyser and hillside beyond.

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346 x 177 mm. A view showing the Maori village of Ohinemutu, with huts and a small palisade, situated on the banks of Lake Rotorua. In the middle of the lake can be seen the island of Mokoia, ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ by D.L. Mundy and F. Von Hochstetter (Sampson Low, London, 1875).

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190 x 148 mm. (Oval print) A view of the top of one of the terrace formations (exact location unidentified) with a rock protruding from the crystal-like material.

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200 x 143 mm. A view of part of Lake Rotomahana with steam rising from the land around the lake, and looking north-east toward Mount Tarawera in the distance.

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90 x 125 mm. Showing a man (Dickinson?) fishing beside a river.