Life at Otaki Beach

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2010.003.01
Otaki Skating Rink
Otaki Skating Rink with Sue Bennett skating and spectators, from left: Mrs Pratt, Judy Pratt, Alison Stewart, Murray Willis, Frances McCutcheon nee Bradbury, Gavin Bevan, Peter Jensen, Peter Denzel.... View Full Record
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2010.003.02
Otaki Skating Rink
Otaki Skating Rink with summer visitors... View Full Record
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2010.003.05
Otaki Skating Rink
Otaki Skating Rink with unknown skaters.... View Full Record
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2006.304.01
Motor cycle races at Otaki Beach
Motor Cycle races at Otaki Beach. Shows 1920s cars, motor cycles, bicycles, spectators. See OHJ16:55... View Full Record
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2006.304.02
Motor cycle races at Otaki Beach
Motor Cycle races at Otaki Beach. Motor cycles and riders lined up on beach ready to start.. See OHJ16:55... View Full Record
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2006.304.03
Motor cycle races at Otaki Beach
Motor Cycle races at Otaki Beach. 1920s Cars, motor cycles and bicycles, spectators. See OHJ16:55... View Full Record
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2006.305.04
Spectators, Waitohu River
Spectators crossing the Waitohu River at low tide, Otaki Beach.... View Full Record
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2024.072.01
Otaki Kite Festival held at Otaki beach over 2 days each year in February. The days change each year depending on the tide. organised by the Otaki Promotions Group. Photo taken from beach.... View Full Record
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2024.073.01
Otaki Kite Festival held at Otaki beach over 2 days each year in February or March. The days change each year depending on the tide. organised by the Otaki Promotions Group. Photo taken from dunes.... View Full Record
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2024.074.01a
Visitors watching the music performances at the Otaki Kite Festival 2024. The festival is held at Otaki beach over 2 days each year in February or March. The days change each year depending on the tide. organised by the Otaki Promotions Group.... View Full Record
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2024.074.01b
Visitors at the Otaki Kite Festival 2024. The festival is held at Otaki beach over 2 days each year in February or March. The days change each year depending on the tide. organised by the Otaki Promotions Group.... View Full Record
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2006.306.01
Whitebaiters at Otaki Beach
Whitebaiters at Otaki Beach... View Full Record
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2006.306.02
Whitebaiters at Otaki Beach
Whitebaiter at Otaki Beach. See front cover and page 11 of OHJ vol 44. ... View Full Record
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2006.480.01
Aerial view of Otaki Rivermouth.
Aerial view of Otaki river mouth during whitebaiting season. Most cars parked at the end of Tasman road extension, but some also at the flood gates. Note fire burning at tip site. Rangiuru settlement in the foreground; pine plantantion with Health... View Full Record
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2006.729.02
Bringing in the catch
Digital photo of a painting by the artist Ernest Papps. The painting, called Bringing in the catch shows a tractor on Otaki Beach about to tow a boat in after a fishing trip. Kapiti Island at sunset is in the distance . See OHJ vol 43, page 56... View Full Record
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2024.101.01
Fishing rod at Otaki beach, near the river mouth. Photo taken for use in Otaki beach exhibition, 2024... View Full Record
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2010.014.15
Fishing at Otaki River
Ursula Stevenson fishing with a line at the Otaki River mouth. Kapiti Island just visible in the distance.... View Full Record
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2012.034.04
Doug Barlow presenting fishing prize
Photo of Doug Barlow presenting a Fishing Club prize at Otaki Beach.... View Full Record
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2016.016.06
Photograph of Alan Quartermain and Ken McKenzie fishing for flounder at Otaki Beach... View Full Record
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2010.014.09
Kane and Ursula fishing
Kane Tawhara and Ursula Stevenson surfcasting at Otaki River mouth. With a driftwood bivouac, a macrocarpa tree and the Tararuas in the background. John Bishop's fishing camp in the background (centre). ... View Full Record
Fishhook
2011.049.07
Fish Hook
Large trolling hook with wooden shank, shell inlay and line of finely plaited muka (flax) . The actual hook is missing but the lashing is still intact ... View Full Record
Fishhook
2011.049.12
Pa Kahawai - Complete Hook
Contact period Maori trolling lure (Pa Kahawai). Wooden shank with paua shell insert and inner barbed bone point. Lashed snood and line. Pa kahawai are trolling lures designed to attract and hook large surface-feeding fish, such as kahawai... View Full Record
Fishhook
2011.049.14
Pa Kahawai - fishing hook
Trolling lure with wooden shank, white shell insert and lashed snood and line. The hook point is missing but a bone remnant can be seen beneath the lashing. ... View Full Record
Fishhook
2011.049.13
Pa Kahawai - Shaft and Line
Fishing lure made of of contoured wooden shaft in to which a shell lure (missing) would originally have been set. A bone barb (missing) would also have been fixed at the base and bound with cord. The plaited fibre line is still intact. ... View Full Record
Fishhook
2011.049.11
Pa Kahawai - Shaft and Line
Fishing lure made of a contoured wooden shaft in to which a shell lure (missing) would originally have been set. A bone barb (missing) would also have been fixed at the base and bound with the muka (flax fibre) cord. The twisted muka line is still in... View Full Record
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2010.070.01-24
Whale Series
Photographs of a whale stranding at Otaki Beach following a storm on 12 March, 1995. Series of 24 photographs shows the whale stranded at the beach, crowds and the removal of the whale for stripping by tangata whenua.... View Full Record
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2010.004.50 REF
Children at beach
Otaki Health Camp children at Otaki Beach... View Full Record
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2010.004.69 REF
Health Camp girls at beach
Health Camp girls playing in the water at Otaki Beach See EXH.PAN.412... View Full Record
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2010.004.73 REF
Health Camp children at beach
Health Camp children at Otaki Beach with sandcastles. See EXH.PAN.417... View Full Record
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2010.004.74 REF
Health Camp children at beach
Health Camp children playing at Otaki Beach See EXH.PAN.411... View Full Record
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2010.004.85 REF
Otaki Health Camp staff on beach
Otaki Health Camp staff and children on the beach. Adults from left: Mrs Nash, Dawn Harper, Sadie O'Brien, Sister Smith, Miss Major and Jean G?.... View Full Record
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2006.305.02
Children swimming at Otaki Beach
Children swimming at Otaki Beach... View Full Record
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2024.099.02.
Children making sandcastles at Otaki Beach... View Full Record
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2024.100.01
Surf class at Otaki Beach... View Full Record
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2012.007.04
Boating on Rangiuru Stream
Boating on Rangiuru Stream... View Full Record
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2016.016.01
Photograph of Pegler,Quartermain and Mckenzie children in boat at Otaki Beach, possible on Waitohu River... View Full Record
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2012.007.07
Playing in Cook's boat, Rangiuru Stream.
David Cook (with hat) and George Taucher playing in the Cook's Boat, Rangiuru Stream... View Full Record
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2022.157.04
Matariki Ramaroa (light festival) at Otaki beach. It was organised by the Maoriland Charitable Trust. Held over the weekend of 22-23 July 2022. Matariki is a special occasion in the New Zealand calendar which marks the start of the Maori New Year... View Full Record
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2023.190.02
Matariki Ramaroa bonfire at the Lighting the Beacon ceremony at Otaki beach Saturday 14 July. Matariki Ramaroa (light/ beacon) is run by the Maoriland Trust for the Kapiti Arts Festival. A series of events celebrating Matariki are held annually... View Full Record
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2023.190.03.
Matariki Ramaroa bonfire at the Lighting the Beacon ceremony at Otaki beach Saturday 14 July. Matariki Ramaroa (light/ beacon) is run by the Maoriland Trust for the Kapiti Arts Festival. A series of events celebrating Matariki are held annually... View Full Record
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2006.305.05
Picnic at Otaki Beach
Picnic at Otaki Beach, in sand dunes.... View Full Record
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2024.094.01
A Simcox family picnic on Otaki Beach north of the Waitohu Stream about 1918.... View Full Record
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2006.319.01
Otaki Surf Club
Otaki Surf Club on the beach. Nineteen men, including officials and lifesavers. Many not named, but including back, L to R: -, -, A. Podevin, Broadway, Carmont, H Wills, Byron Brown, J P Brandon, H Witchell, -; front includes H Nicolson, Teeling,... View Full Record
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2006.719.08
This digital photo shows the children and Surf Club members at the end of season nipper carnival at Otaki Beach. The OSLSC clubrooms are visible on the hill behind. See OHJ vol 43, page 31... View Full Record
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2006.719.01
Otaki Surf Lifesaving Club (OSLSC) photo of the Ladies Four Place Rescue and Resucitation Team. Left to right: Jennifer Knox, Liz Holmes, Annette Sargisson, Janet Sargisson... View Full Record
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2006.719.03
Otaki Surf Lifesaving 6 man Resuce & rescuitation team, Worser Bay team on right. See OHJ vol 43, page 31 where it is described as a junior team.... View Full Record
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2006.719.09
This digital copy of a photo shows a 4-man OSLSC rescue and resucitation team in the 1950s. Doug Hooker is carrying the unknown patient's feet, Dave Foster and John Hosiaux are carrying the patient. See OHJ vol 43, page 32... View Full Record
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2006.719.11
This digital copy of a photo shows the Ladies 4 place rescue & resucitation team, about 1981 See OHJ vol 43, page 34... View Full Record
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2006.719.12
This digital photo shows the IRB Senior Tube Rescue race in 2011 with Brad O'Leary driving. See OHJ vol 43, page 34... View Full Record
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2006.719.14
This digital copy of a photo shows the first rescue vehicle (also known as a surf buggy) in Otaki. See OHJ vol 43, page 34... View Full Record
Paddle
2012.014.01
Hoe (paddle)
Hoe (Paddle) fashioned from wood.... View Full Record
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2006.541.01
Official opening of the Waitohu Stream Care nursery, June 2001. Francie & Pearlie Reeves cutting the ribbon with Chris Turver, and Alex Thompson seated in the background. Photo from Otaki Mail.... View Full Record
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2006.740.02
Digital photo of a ''go ashore pot" found in the sandhills by the Waitohu Stream. Included in Ray Moffatt's obituary. See page 67 OHJ vol 42... View Full Record
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2010.014.17
Waitohu estuary at Sunset
Photograph of Waitohu Estuary with a woman silhouetted against the sunset.... View Full Record
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2006.381.05
Plane on Otaki beach.
Plane on Otaki Beach. A monoplane flown by Les Monaghan. To the right is D B Wilson who lived in Convent Road. See OHJ16:73... View Full Record