Conservation week: Healthy Nature, Healthy People.
Did you know that this week is Conservation Week ? Ref: Stapley Farmer, Rotorua, 1960s?, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 1056-84.
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Auckland Heritage Festival 2015
The Auckland Heritage Festival is about to begin again. The region wide festival starts this Saturday, 26 September, and runs for the subsequent two weeks until 11 October. This year’s theme is “The iwi, people, kōrero, and stories that shaped our region, Tāmaki Makaurau”. Ref: 2 015 Auckland Heritage Festival logo.
F. Douglas Mill aerial photograph collection
The majority of the F. Douglas Mill Collection contains images which represent some of the first civil aerial photographic surveys in New Zealand, the images range from the late 1920s to the middle of the 1930s and document the country at that time from the Bay of Islands down to Waimate and Dunedin. Details of the collection can be found here in Local History Online . The photographs include an early aerial survey of Auckland containing images such as this one of the Auckland War Memorial Museum under construction: Ref: F. Douglas Mill, Auckland War Memorial Museum under construction, from the air, 1929, West Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries, FDM-0544-G.