Showing posts with label Leo White. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leo White. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Leo White

 Unidentified Maori women wearing traditional dress, Rotorua, 1936
  
 Unidentified members of the [Royal New Zealand?] Air Force, standing in formation 
in front of Vickers Vincent aircraft, an an unidentified aerodrome, 1940
  
WAAF, RNZAF, Hobsonville, January 1942
 
Woman bathing a baby beside a tent while camping, 1940
 
Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Leo White

Unidentified "loggie" on Kaipara Harbour, Northland, 1938
  
 Unidentified drovers resting on a rural roadside, including cart and flock of sheep
  
Unidentified group at swimming pool, North Auckland, 1936
  
 Unidentified individuals at Piha, Auckland, includes 
view of beach, farmland and Lion Rock, 1936
  
Unidentified man in dinghy, Whangaparoa Harbour, Northland, 1930
 
Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Monday, August 15, 2016

Leo White

 Centaurus flying boat, Auckland, 1938 
 
 Group of unidentified Maori women gathered around carved 
and decorated meeting house (wharenui), wearing traditional dress 
(Taniko design bodice and Piupiu), Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, 1936
  
 Maori kuia Marutuna smoking a pipe and wearing a 
traditional outfit beside thermal pool at Orakei Korako, 1933
   
Seaplane Centaurus, anchored in Lyttelton harbour, January 1938
 
 Swimming at Arkles Bay, Whangaparaoa Peninsula, 1940
  
Source: Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Fiji

These photos of Fiji were taken in 1939.

  
  
  
  
  
 
Source: Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Friday, January 8, 2016

Leo White

Biplane ZK-AAG, in flight over Mount Earnslaw, 
Queenstown-Lakes District, 1938
  
Maori woman in costume playing the ukelele, 1938
  
Seabirds on a shingle beach, July 1927
  
Swimming pool at Milford, Auckland, 1939
  
Tongan villagers and guest, posing beside coconuts drying in the sun, ca. 1939
 
Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Leo White

Maori wahine performing an action song, Waikato, 1938
  
Maori women in traditional kapa haka performance 
dress, including puipui and poi, 1925-35
  
Paddle boat on the Waikato River, 1938
  
Row of Blackburn Baffin biplanes in a row on the ground 
with a group of young air force men checking the wing, 1938
  
Royal New Zealand Air Force Airspeed Oxford 
aeroplanes in flight near Auckland, 13 September 1940
 
Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Friday, July 24, 2015

Leo White

 Crowd at the Diamond Harbour wharf, Lyttelton Harbour, 1938
  
 Five Vickers Vincent biplanes flying over the clouds, 
Royal New Zealand Air Force, ca. 1940
  
 Flying boat, Centaurus, taxiing in Wellington Harbour, January 1938
  
 Four unidentified men on boat Ozone, which has a swordfish tied 
to the back, Bay of Islands, Far North District, Northland Region, 1930
  
Maori children playing in the river, Waikato, 1938
 
Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Leo White

 Austin 7 car at petrol station with owner filling car, 
children and movie poster for Stella Maris, 1928
  
 Austin 7 car motoring on muddy road, Northland, 1927
  
 Barge transporting a car, Paihia, 1940
  
 Camping near the bush, Mercury Bay, Northland, 1940
  
Canoeing on the Waikato River, 1938
 
Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Leo White

Leo White was an aviator who served in the New Zealand Air Force during World War II and was involved in commercial aviation thereafter.

 A group of Maori women bathing at the river, Waikato, 1938
  
 A young man and woman watching a coastal steamer at sea, 1930s
  
 Air Travel Ltd's Fox Moth biplane at Bruce Bay, Westland, New Zealand, September 1935
  
 Biplane over Mount Earnslaw, Wakatipu, ca. 1939
  
Cars and caravan being loaded onto the barge, Paihia, 1940

 Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library