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Monochrome postcards.

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North Island, New Zealand. [Rows of sheep pens with barges on river beyond].

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Sheep, cattle and pigs. View taken from the Windmill. [Showing rows of pens].

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Sheep, cattle and pigs. View taken from the Windmill. [Showing rows of pens].

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358 x 265 mm. A view looking over small houses and shacks towards Queen Street Wharf and shipping in the harbour. The photograph gives a fascinating insight into the cramped shanty life on the docks, showing a jumble of cramped backyards and washing lines separated by rudimentary wooden fences.

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A print issued by the New Zealand Government to mark the opening of New Zealand House, London, on 9 May 1963 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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7'' x 13½''.

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75 x 54mm. A view of a steaming geyser on top of a mound of mineral formations.

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Landscape format. [Showing empty wooden barrels].

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Landscape format. [Six storey brick building with railway trucks outside and 'Royal Flouring Mills', etc. painted on building].

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205 x 116 mm. Possibly New Zealand.

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Monochrome postcards depicting Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, including one of Mount Ngauruhoe in eruption (284).

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210 x 148 mm. A view of the top of the terrace, with steam rising from the geyser (not visible).

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Landscape format. North Island, New Zealand. [View from harbour].

Scope and Contents This file contains a large number of detailed notes by Smedley on his various visits throughout New Zealand and beyond, including a lengthy report on a visit to the Pitcairn Islands, Tahiti and Samoa, as well as visits to Taranaki, Manawatu, South Island, Ashburton, Waioru, Hawkes Bay, Northland, Rotorua, South Canterbury, Palmerston North, Nelson, Waikato, Auckland, Stratford, Southland, Tauranga, Kawerau and Gisborne. This material is accompanied by two colour maps of New Zealand (circa...

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85 x 140 mm.

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140 x 200 mm. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘TUARI NETANA NGATIMARU. CHIEF. ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND REGISTERED. No.145’.

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The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 6787-7005 (originally there were 173 in the album). Added numbers are: 6933-7005; not used: 6791, 6821, 6834 and 6872; missing 6790, 6792-6794, 6802, 6809, 6812, 6814, 6848-6849, 6936-6937, 6941, 6944, 6947, 6981, 6984, 6989-6890, 6992-6993 and 6995.

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360 x 266 mm. A view looking towards a cliff face, down which drop two waterfalls, presumably from the same source.

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194 x 139 mm. A view looking along a river valley with steep wooded hillside rising on either side.

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194 x 135 mm. A view looking along a river towards a valley and a mountain in the distance. Exact location unidentified, but probably somewhere in the Lake Wakatipu region.

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[No print]. [Missing]. Half-plate.

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72 x 59 mm. A view looking down onto a river which winds between steep, tree-covered hills.

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240 x 208 mm. A view showing the front of the Union Bank in Queen Street, c 1870, with numerous passersby standing on the pavement watching the photographer. This brick building with four tall Corinthian arches screening the entrance was designed by Leonard Terry of Melbourne and built between 1862-1864.

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Press cuttings of Robert Forbes's correspondence with the Nelson Evening Mail [New Zealand] defending WSC's part in the Dardanelles Campaign. [Covering letter CHAR 2/234/76].