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125 x 75 mm. Showing fish swimming in the clear shallow waters of a river.

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80 x 55 mm. Showing fish swimming in the clear shallow waters of a river.

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150 x 105 mm. Showing fish swimming in the clear shallow waters of a river.

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360 x 260 mm.
A view looking across to Parnell Hill, an Auckland suburb situated to the west of Hobson Bay. Land allotments in the area were first sold in 1841, but in this picture it still remains a fairly peaceful appearance, with villas and bungalows on the hill and a small industrial and commercial area at the foot. The railway cuts across the picture below the residential area with an iron bridge across the road.

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195 x 140 mm. A view looking along a small stream, with trees on either side.

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145 x 199 mm. A half length portrait of a Maori chieftain, wearing a cloak made from cords of flax ('karure'), and heavily tattooed. In his hair he wears the prized feathers of the huia bird.

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50 x 75 mm. A view of a ship at harbour. A sign before it reads 'Stop!! Danger'.

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56 x 74 mm. A view showing a small rocky river.

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204 x 145 mm. A view looking down from a small settlement and across the lake, with mountains in the distance. In the foreground stand a few farm buildings and some cleared land.

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Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

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64 x 42 mm. A view showing tour members picnicking in the New Zealand countryside.

Scope and Contents Undated postcards, envelopes and photographs containing images from New Zealand. The pictures include the War Canoe Race, tattooed Maori, 'tiki', South African postmen, a pictorial Christmas message and Robley surrounded by dried heads. There is also a painting by Robley of the 'Hongi or old Nose Salute'. The images are accompanied by a letter from Robley to the Secretary, Royal Colonial Institute, June 1920, enclosing a postcard with an original painting of a tiki and offering various...

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196 x 141 mm A view of the Pink Terrace from Lake Rotomahana. For a contemporary description of the terraces see Y308B/99 and Y308A/131. For pictures of the area before and after it was destroyed in the eruption of 1886 see New Zealand Postcards 100-111.

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198 x 146 mm. A close-up view of the encrusted formations on some of the cups on the Pink Terrace.

Scope and Contents 198 x 147 mm. A view of the collapsed Pink Terrace, destroyed in the volcanic eruption and subsequent earthquakes of June 1886. Mt Tarawera believed even by the Maoris to be extinct, killed 153 people, submerged the Pink and White terraces and caused enormous devastation over hundreds of square miles.For photographs of the terraces before their destruction, and descriptions of the phenomena see D.L. Mundy’s ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ (Sampson Low, London...

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201 x 143 mm. A view of the Pink Terrace cascade with the lake in the foreground and steam rising from the geyser behind. For other pictures and descriptions of these formations, and the eruptions that destroyed them, see Y308B09-104, Y308A131 and New Zealand Postcards 100-111.

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186 x 148 mm. A view looking from the lake towards the terraces, with steam rising from the geyser behind.

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62 x 41 mm. A view showing a carved wooden food store in the model pah [Maori fortified village] at Whakarewarewa.

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57 x 74mm. A view looking down onto a bubbling mud pool, the 'poached eggs' of the title referring to the shapes made by the bubbling mud.

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85 x 140 mm.

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55 x 75 mm.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman, on subjects including the visit of Princess Elizabeth [later Queen Elizabeth II] to Woodford (6), C C Worsdell, Secretary and Agent (4) and "Kath", Kathleen Kemp, Secretary to the Agent (6); John Hudson, Ministry of Education; Percy Cohen [Joint Director], Conservative Research Department (5); Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, Chairman, Far Eastern Prisoners of War Committee,...

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350 x 250 mm. No print.