This file contains itineraries and other material relating to the Smedleys’ official visits and entertainment outside Wellington, including Auckland; Antarctica; Hastings; Western Samoa; Marton; Timaru; Christchurch; Invercargill; Northland; Rotorua; Napier; Dannvirke; South Island; Hamilton; and Oamaru (circa 60 sheets).

Includes printed summaries of affairs throughout the British empire and Africa and other parts of the world with notes by Leo Amery [Secretary of State for the Colonies and for the Dominions].Subjects covered include: financial negotiations with the United States; opinions among Labour movements in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa of conscription and war; peace discussions with Germany; shipping; and inter-imperial exchange.

194 x 139 mm. A view looking down on the village and out towards Lake Rotorua, in the centre of which can be seen the island of Mokoia. In the foreground are vegetable plots with a path leading down to the houses at the water’s edge.

199 x 147 mm. A view looking down on the old Maori village which lies on the shore of Lake Rotorua, with a cultivated garden in the foreground and scattered Maori huts around the lakeside.

[No print]. Missing.

181 x 144 mm. A view showing a small curved beach on the island with trees reaching to the water’s edge.

152 x 203 mm. A view looking along the line towards the Wairarapa portal of the Summit Tunnel. A point of interest is the central gripping rail used on the Fell Incline to cope with the steep gradient. See also New Zealand Postcards 36-39 and 217.

60 x 74mm. A view showing a party of boys climbing on the glacier.

193 x 138 mm. A view looking across the River Avon, towards unidentified buildings, probably a school.

193 x 137 mm. A view looking along the tree-lined river, with school or church buildings beyond the trees.

[No print]. [Missing].

[Three men spearing the swamp].

Full-plate. [Showing three men climbing over crevassed area].

Full-plate. [Showing two men and a woman (in skirt and hat) with ice axes climbing up icey slope on the Glacier].

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

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

Half-plate (landscape format). [Fenced pool with shelter at far end. People in pool of diving in (blurred)].

A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 75 x 55 mm, captioned on the reverse. These scenic views of the Rotorua area are a commercial souvenir set and are contained in a printed envelope. Printed and published by Isle's Photo Finishing Service, Rotorua.

141 x 199 mm. A head and shoulders portrait of this young Maori girl wearing a checked shirt and leaning against a hut. This picture is a cropped enlargement of a full length portrait taken on the 12th May 1885.

196 x 140 mm A view of an oval man-made pool at the sanatorium at Rotorua, with figures standing in front of huts in the background.

These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.

198 x 141 mm. A view looking along the river, with steep wooded banks on either side.

140 x 189 mm. A view showing the bottom of the gorge, with cliffs and steep hillside on either side; with a small road cut into the cliff at the left of the picture and mountains in the distance.

190 x 138 mm. A view looking down on to the river which flows through the steep wooded gorge, with mountains in the distance. Otira lies in the Southern Alps near Arthur’s Pass.