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[No print]. Missing.

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[No print]. [Missing].

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[Three men spearing the swamp].

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Landscape format. Unloading flax from the Swamp at the Shannon Mills. Flax stacked on wooden platfroms ready for use. Near Paikakariki.

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Landscape format. Unloading flax at the Shannon Mills near Paikariki.

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Landscape format. Unloading flax at the Shannon Mills near Paikariki.

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Landscape format. [Pair of horses pull loaded cart along road, with dog walking in foreground].

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A three-page memorandum by S.J. Robinson on the Queen's visit, enclosed with a letter to A.J. Whiteway of 30 December 1953. There is also a letter to Robinson from Martin Charteris, 28 December 1953, enclosing a photograph, included in this collection, of the Queen's visit to his home. The letters and memorandum are undated typescript copies.

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72 x 75 mm. Fish swimming in a river, probably in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

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74 x 72 mm. A small river in the valley, probably in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

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

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85 x 140 mm.

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55 x 75 mm.

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253 x 192 mm. A view looking over the valley from a thickly vegetated hillside, with two men sitting in the foreground. Gisborne, situated at the north shore of the Bay, was the spot where Captain Cook first set foot on New Zealand soil in October 1769. He gave the Bay its name after his welcome there, having to kill four Maoris after a hostile reception.

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A programme of the visit of 9-16 January 1954.

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75 x 73 mm. A Maihi decorating shelter over the bust of Queen Victoria, photographed in a village in Rotorua, New Zealand.

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[No print]. Missing. Red and black funnels of Union S.S. Co. of New Zealand: the tower is that of the Town Hall, Wellington.

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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).

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...

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