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Ab Locomotive courtesy NZ Railway & Locomotive Society Archives;
Photographs of Richard Cooper, Nigel Evans & Peter Bates courtesy of Dr Nigel Evans
Onekaka picture courtesy of Christine Whiteford.
Solo and Chain Butchering pictures from " A History of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company Limited – the first seventy-five years" by G.R MCDonald, 1957.
Top Dressing Plane, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Eric Lee-Johnson Collection E1527/03
Cockayne, Leonard. 1928
Photographer: Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew 1879?- 1964
Description: Dr Leonard Cockayne (1855-1934).
Teacher, horticulturist, botanist. Born Sheffield, 7 April 1855, attended Wesley College, Sheffield, in 1872, and then Owens College, Manchester, until 1874. Travelled to Australia in 1877, then to New Zealand in 1880. Was President of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury in 1899 and 1912, the New Zealand Institute in 1918-1919, and of its Science Congress in 1919, the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture in 1924-1925, and the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society in 1930-1931. Was responsible in 1927 for the establishment of the Otari Open Air Native Plant Museum, at Wilton in Wellington. Dr Cockayne died in Wellington on 8 July 1934.
Date; 1928
Earle Andrew Collection Alexander Tumbull Library, Wellington, N.Z.
Reference Number: F- 18377-1/1 –
Permission of the Library is required before this photograph may be reproduced or displayed
Geiringer, Erich 1974
Photographer unknown
Description: Dr Erich Geiringer (1917-1995)
Wellington physician, writer, publisher, broadcaster and challenger of the status quo. He was born in Vienna, 31 January 1917, and escaped from Nazi Germany in March 1938, going first to Belgium and then England. He attended medical school in Edinburgh and Glasgow and was a Fulbright scholar. He died in Wellington 24 August 1995.
Date 1974
Reference Number. F- 21989-35MM Print from the Alexander Tumbull Library, Wellington,
Reproduced by courtesy of lllustrations Editor, The Evening Post, Wellington
Semple, Robert
Photographer unknown
Description: Coalminer, trade unionist, politician (Labour Member
of Parliament 1918-1949; Minister of Public Works and Transport 1935-1940)
Date: c1920s
Alexander Tumbull Library, Wellington, N.Z. Reference Number. C- 24418-1/2.:
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Semple, Robert. 1939.
Photographer Unknown
Description: Robert Semple, then Minister of Public Works, on a Caterpillar Diesel bulldozer.
Date: 29 March 2023
Evening Post Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, Reference Number. F- 115893-1/2 –
Permission of the Library is required before this photograph may be reproduced or displayed
Fanning, Leo
Photographer unknown
Description: Leo Fanning (left) 1936 with Minister in Charge of Tourist and Health Resorts (Dean Jack Eyre 1914- ) (right) and members of the Wellington Travel League, Mr J.L. Squire (centre) and Mr C. Rouse.
Date: 1957
Alexander Tumbull Library Wellington, N.Z
Reference Number: C- 24419-1/2
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Smith, Edward Metcalf.
Photographer unknown
Description: Edward Metcalfe Smith 1839-1907. Armourer,
Ironsands entrepreneur, politician. MP for New Plymouth (1890-1896) and Taranaki, (1899-1907). House of Representatives, (1906-1908).
Date: c1900s
Alexander Tumbull Library, Welllngton,
Reference Number. F- 183-35MM -B.:
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Sutch, William Ball.
Photographer unknown
Description: William Ball Sutch (1907-1975). Economic and industrial development consultant.
Date: c1947
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, N.Z.
Reference Number: F- 92659-1/2 – Collection Reference No.: PAColl-6001-28
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Vogel, Sir Julius.
Photographer. Morris
Description: Julius Vogel, 1835-1899. He arrived in Dunedin in 1861 and held a number of political positions before becoming premier in 1873. He was largely responsible for the immigration and public works policies of the 1870s. Vogel was knighted in 1875. In 1888 he and his wife Mary retumed to England to live. In his retirement he wrote a furturistic novel "Anno domini 2000; or a woman’s destiny" (published 1889).
Date: c1870s
Alexander Tumbull Library, Welllngton
Reference Number. F- 5288-1/2
Permission of the Library is required before this photograph may be reproduced or displayed