Stamp on back of photo - from Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.

Also online at: http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=39178&recordNum=10&f=tapuhigroupref%24PA-Group-00048|decade%241920s|placeid%2479271&s=da&l=en

Mangahao hydro-electric power station interior showing switchboard room, 1st January 1925

Reference Number: APG-1425-1/4-G

Mangahao hydro-electric power station showing a view of the switchboard room, photographed by Albert Percy Godber in January 1925.

Key terms:
1 image, related to Mangahao Hydro and Hydroelectric power plants - New Zealand - Manawatu-Wanganui Region.

Part of:
Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives, Reference Number PA-Group-00048 (2024 digitised items)

Extent: 1 b&w original negative(s)Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches. Horizontal imageSingle negative

Conditions governing access to original: Partial restriction - Negatives are not available for viewing. Surrogate copies will be provided.

Citation: Any publication must be accompanied by the credit "A P Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library".

Other copies available: File print available in Turnbull Library Pictures 46. Horowhenua Co. Mangahao Hydro Electric Station(PFP-025354)

Inscriptions: Inscribed - On album page - Mangahao Power Station. View in the switchboard room. 1/1/25.

Arapeti Dam, looking southwest, 1925 1 B&W photo print

3 people (unidentified – man & 2 women) standing on the dam looking downstream. Some wooden buildings can be seen (background) near shore of reservoir behind dam.

See also – Acc. #s2002.088.0027 (identical photo, sepia, in brown album). & #s2002.086.0022

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”

Page 5 – Mangahao Power Project – 10 b/w photos

Top to bottom (L to R) - a) Mangahao River, early 1920’s. {copy}

b) Mangahao River, looking down from No.2 Dam site, 1919. {copy}

c) Arapeti Dam, looking north from some distance up the reservoir, 1925. {copy} (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0012 additional copy)

d) Workers camp at No.2 Dam, 1922. {copy} (see photo j below, slightly larger copy) Closer view of tent accommodation on terrace. (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0020 additional copy)

e) Another view (from across the river) of workers camp at No.2 Dam, 1922. {copy} Tent accommodation on terraces with some wooden buildings. Bridge carrying tram-line across river (left). (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0017 additional copy)

f) Construction campsite at Arapeti Dam, 1923. {copy} Hill behind camp area almost denuded of bush. (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0018 additional copy)

g) Mangaore construction camp (Mangaore Village), c.1922. {copy} Looking west towards Shannon from the Social Hall. Main office and store room (centre) with accommodation buildings. (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0011 additional copy)

h) Another view of Mangahao River at No.2 Dam site, 1919. {copy} (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0010 additional copy, titled: View of river (Tokomaru or Mangahao)

i) Power Station with penstock pipelines behind, 1924. {copy} (see also – Acc.#s2002.088.0031 original sepia photo) Closer view of tent accommodation on terrace. (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0037 additional copy) (see also – Acc.#s2002.089.0003 additional copy)

j) Workers camp at No.2 Dam, 1922. {copy} (slightly larger copy of photo d above) Closer view of tent accommodation on terrace. (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0020 additional copy)

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Page 7 – Mangahao Power Project – 11 b/w photos

Left Column (top to bottom) - a) No.1 Dam under construction, c.1921. {copy ?} View from downstream showing several workers on downstream coffer dam and the upstream coffer dam through the ‘storm water gap’. Dam is nearing half its intended height.

b) Construction of Main Dam, Mangahao, c.1922. {copy} View through ‘gap’ in dam through which flood waters frequently pour. (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0021 additional copy) (see also – Acc.#s2002.088.0017 original photo) (see also – Acc.#s2002.089.0009 additional copy)

c) No. 2 Dam campsite, Mangahao, c.1922. {copy} Bridge carrying tram-line across river (centre). Wooden buildings on terraces (left), most prominant building believed to be the cookhouse. (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0019 additional copy)

d) Main Dam and campsite, Mangahao, c.1922. {copy} Shows dam construction well advanced. Huts precariously perched in tiers on hillside. (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0023 additional copy) (see also – Acc.#s2002.088.0016 original sepia photo) (see also – Acc.#s2002.089.0008 additional copy)

e) Tram-line (right) and camp (left) at Upper Mangahao Dam (?), c.1923. {copy} Could be rock crushing and cement mixing plant situated above the dam site, as stated on page 111 of book – “From Bush & Swamp”. (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0014 additional copy) (see also – Acc.#s2002.087.0002 additional copy)

Right Column (top to bottom) - f) View of workers accommodations at Upper Mangahao Dam (?), 1923. {copy} Dam nearing completion with ‘storm water gap’ yet to be filled in background behind bridge. (see also – Acc.#s2002.087.0009 additional copy)

g) Part of completed dam with by-pass tunnel valve house (left), 1924. {copy ?} Man & 2 women on footbridge (right).

h) Jig-line at Mangahao Dam site, c.1922. {copy} (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0024 additional copy) (see also – Acc.#s2002.088.0007 original sepia photo)

i) Arapeti Dam nearing completion, early 1920’s. {copy} Looking north to the dam, showing machinery and buildings to be removed as this area will be flooded when the reservoir fills. (see also – Acc.#s2002.088.0024 original sepia photo)

j) Another view (from hill on upstream side) of No.1 Dam nearing completion, 1923. {copy} ‘Storm water gap’ yet to be filled. Bridge at right. Used in book – “From Bush & Swamp”, page 111, with caption - Construction at one of the dam sites. Although highly mechanised for those times, much of the labour was still manual, not made any easier by the rugged conditions and isolation.

k) Arapeti Dam, looking north from some distance up the reservoir, 1925. {copy} (see also – Acc.#s2002.086.0009 additional copy) (see also – Acc.#s2002.088.0026 original sepia photo)

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“This would have been quite good if I hadn’t opened my mouth so wide, but it was a joke. We are out by the back door with the big cream rose as a back ground. —-—— Mrs Hannah Dunckley”

See Acc#s20004.002.0010 photocopy of original with details.

Three Dunckley women in garden, c.1920

Woman at left believed to be Mrs Hannah Dunckley. The young women would probably be her daughters – “Flo” and “May”.

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Mounted photograph of Cresswells Blacksmith shop, Foxton, 1925. Situated on the corner of Main Street and Cook Street, this photograph shows three men and a youth alond with horses and carts. Harold Cresswell is the man wearing the leather apron. The Cresswell family lived in corner house opposite the blacksmith’s shop.

Mounted photograph and copy

See alsof1999.0120

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Written on back with black felt-tip pen – (2) Arapeti about 1925

Same photo as #s2002.088.0027 (in brown photo album). & #s2002.089.0006 (from black photo album).

Arapeti Dam, looking southwest, 1925 1 B&W photo print

3 people (unidentified – man & 2 women) standing on the dam looking downstream. Some wooden buildings can be seen (background) near shore of reservoir behind dam.

Same photo as #s2002.088.0027 (in brown photo album). & #s2002.089.0006 (from black photo album).

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Typed on piece of paper - ARAPETI

Same photo as #s2002.086.0022 & #s2002.089.0006

Arapeti Dam, looking southwest, 1925 1 Sepia photo print

3 people (unidentified – man & 2 women) standing on the dam looking downstream. Some wooden buildings can be seen (background) near shore of reservoir behind dam.

Caption typed on piece of paper at top of photo - ARAPETI

Same photo as #s2002.086.0022 & #s2002.089.0006

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Information on back of original photograph - 1925. The French Mission

Group of people on road, Mangahao, 1925

About 6 unidentified men grouped around front of car (possible breakdown) with 2 cars at right.

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Written on back with black felt-tip pen – (1) 1925

Arapeti Dam, looking northeast, 1925 1 B&W photo print

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Written on back with black felt-tip pen – (5)

Arapeti Dam, looking north, 1925 1 B&W photo print

Taken from further up the reservoir than #.0008 & #.0009

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Written on back with black felt-tip pen – (2)

Arapeti Dam, looking northeast, 1925 1 B&W photo print

Taken from further up the reservoir.

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Written on bottom of photo – Grace Fuller G. Lawrence M. Corly

Written on back – PN Girls High School c 1925 9th from L Lucy Thompson

Palmerston North Girls High School class of 18 girls

Pictured: Lucy Thompson (later Crotty), Grace Fuller, G. Lawrence, M. Corly?

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Written at bottom of photo - Our first Bus 1925. Republic

Republic bus – the first bus, 1925

Wooden sign standing in front of bus reads: Adam Burges Machinery & wagons

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Information on back of original photograph - No 1 dam 1925

View down to No.1 Dam, Mangahao, 1925

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Information on back of original photograph - Top deer head shot behind Shannon by James Kilmister Snr 1925

Mounted deer head, shot by James Kilmister (Snr), 1925

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Information on back of original photograph - Cooks. No 1 dam 1925

Two cooks (unnamed men) at No.1 Dam, Mangahao, 1925

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