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WHANGAREI CAMERA CLUB




29th JULY 1899  Page 5 - NORTHERN ADVOCATE

WHANGAREI CAMERA CLUB
The monthly meeting of the Whangarei Camera Club was held at Cubitt's Hall on Friday, 21st July.

The subject for the evening was "Bromide Printing". Several excellent prints were exhibited by Messrs Cowperthwaite and Steadman.

Messrs Drummond and Steadman gave an illustration of printing on "Velox" carbon paper. This is a novelty lately introduced and the paper can be manipulated in ordinary gas light, thus dispensing with the necessity of a dark room.

The next meeting will be held on Friday 18th August, at 7.30pm, when the members are expected to present for criticism snapshots of "street scenes".



12th AUGUST 1899  Page 2 - NORTHERN ADVOCATE

WHANGAREI CAMERA CLUB
We are requested to state that the Whangarei Camera Club will hold a meeting next Friday.



7th OCTOBER 1899  Page 4 - NORTHERN ADVOCATE

WHANGAREI CAMERA CLUB
The Whangarei Camera Club meets in Cubitt's Hall, at 7.30pm, on Friday 13th October, 1899.

T.H. STEADMAN
HON. SECRETARY



WHANGAREI CAMERA CLUB

FORMED

SEPTEMBER 1907




26th SEPTEMBER 1907  Page 3 - NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XLIV, ISSUE 13553

WHANGAREI CAMERA CLUB
A meeting called by circular, which was well attended, was presided over by Mr. Steadman, who explained that the object of the gathering was to establish a camera club. Two professional photographers who were present offered the use of their studios for meetings, and promised to assist amateurs with advice and instruction. They pointed out that amateurs generally carried off most of the prizes at exhibitions.

It was unanimously decided to form a club, with the designation of Whangarei Camera Club, subscriptions to be 2s 6d per annum.

The following committee was appointed: Mesdames Boult, Pickmere, the Rev. Whalley, Messrs. Hanlon, Bentley (2), Holman, and Drummond.

It was decided to meet fortnightly, on Mondays. A question-box is to be provided, into which any queries put by members will be answered at the meetings. Mr. Hanlon consented to act as HON.SECRETARY pro tem.



14th OCTOBER 1908  Page 8 - NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XLV, ISSUE 13880

WHANGAREI CAMERA CLUB
The Whangarei Camera Club celebrated its first anniversary by holding an exhibition of work, and a social in the Oddfellows Hall, on Monday. There was a very large attendance of members and their friends. The president (Mr. T.S. Drummond) congratulated the members on the interest they had taken in their work during the year, and commented on the excellence of the exhibits shown. An excellent musical program was gone through.



1st AUGUST 1922  Page 4 - NORTHERN ADVOCATE

WHANGAREI PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
The collection of photographs which has been forwarded to New Zealand from London for the purpose of giving amateur and professional photographers an idea of what can be achieved, has arrived in Whangarei and will be on exhibition at the Art Studios, opposite the Town Hall, on Thursday afternoon and evening. The collection, which has been loaned to the Whangarei Photographic Society, is a large one and includes some of the finest, and most attractive work produced by British and Continental photographers. It is really worth seeing, not only by amateur photographers, but by connoisseurs of art, and the Whangarei Photographic Society is to be congratulated upon being instrumental in having so instructive an exhibition held locally. This evening a lecture on amateur photography will be delivered by Mr R. L. Pryor, of Wellington.



4th AUGUST 1922  Page 4 - NORTHERN ADVOCATE

WHANGAREI CAMERA CLUB
The exhibition of art photographs displayed in the Art Studios yesterday under the auspices of the Whangarei Camera Club was inspected by a fairly large number of amateur photographers during the afternoon and evening, and the illustrations of what really can be achieved with a camera and an artistic appreciation, backed by a knowledge of correct technical work, were carefully studied and much appreciated.



7th SEPTEMBER 1922  Page 3 - NORTHERN ADVOCATE

WHANGAREI CAMERA CLUB
A very profitable evening was spent at the Whangarei Y.M.C.A. Hall on Tuesday, when Mr F.G. Radcliffe gave a most interesting illustrated lecture to members of the Whangarei Camera Club and the Y.M.C.A.

Prior to showing any slides the speaker gave a very helping little talk on "hobbies", clearly defining the difference between the meaning of his subject and that of sport. The latter was certainly necessary in the building up of character and greatly assisted in teaching a player self control. Mr Radcliffe referred to association football and cricket as being two exceptionally fine sports. Unfortunately cricket was not entered into so keenly in New Zealand, but it was the English national game and has become a term used for the expression of fair dealing. It was to be hoped that such games would find an enduring place in the life of New Zealanders, and Whangarei was particularly favored in possessing many facilities for sport of practically every kind.

Mr Radcliffe then went into his own subject and gave a most interesting explanation of the meaning of it. He mentioned botany, stamp collecting, music and amateur photography as being particularly fine hobbies. Botany gave one a far pleasanter outlook on life, as it gave the growth of New Zealand's beautiful trees and ferns a far greater meaning. Stamp collecting was perhaps not so suitable in Whangarei, where there were not so many collectors. Music was a most fascinating hobby and one for which everyone should endeavor to acquire the taste. To be able to play an instrument well afforded many opportunities for the making of friends. In support of this statement the speaker gave some personal illustrations. Last, but not least, Mr Radcliffe dealt with amateur photography, a hobby which was within the reach of everyone, and not, as some believed, very expensive. Some of the finest pictures the speaker possessed were taken by a home-made camera, made of an ordinary box, while the camera with which he had taken 8000 views of New Zealand cost only £6 10s and had produced pictures which now adorned the High Commissioner's office in London. To think that an elaborate camera could take the best pictures was almost equal to believing that a varnished rod would catch the most fish. All that was needed was a good lens. To study photography gave one a far more pleasing outlook on nature: the clouds, the sunsets, all provided pictures to attract the interested person with a camera.

Following his brief address Mr Radcliffe took his audience for a trip through the Waitomo Caves, down the Wanganui River to Pipiriki, and across to the Main Trunk, showing the mountains of Ruapehu, Tongariro and Ngauruhoe, also through Wairakei and Rotorua. He showed approximately 100 excellent slides, which have been specially prepared for the New Zealand Government and which were to be sent to England for exhibition purposes.

At the close of the evening Colonel Mackesy, president of the Y.M.C.A., proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Radcliffe, who briefly responded by making an appeal to the young people to avail themselves of the opportunity and become members of the local Camera Club and thereby receive the advantages of instruction given by more experienced members.



22nd SEPTEMBER 1922  Page 4 - NORTHERN ADVOCATE

PHOTOGRAPHIC ART

WHANGAREI EXHIBITS CRITICISED

Reporting upon the New Zealand Inter-Club photographic competition which was held recently in Invercargill and to which members of the Whangarei Photographic Society sent a number of exhibits, the judge stated that the numerical strength was stronger than it had been during the two previous years. He declared that the Southland Technical College Camera Club had to have a fine Exhibit to win for the second time running. The general standard was higher than in 1921, but in one or two sections there were weaknesses. The portraiture was not so strong and the architectural section was weaker. He noticed however, more pronounced efforts to get "atmosphere" into the pictures, a quality which is essential to artistic photography. The Southland exhibit, he continued, was undoubtedly the strongest, but he indicated that a pleasing feature was the progress shown by Hamilton.

Referring to the Whangarei exhibits he wrote that members of the Hamilton Photographic Society would be interested in the Whangarei exhibit, because Hamilton's progress was a striking example of what could be done from small beginnings. The photographs in the Whangarei section belonged to the "snap-shot" variety, but showed some sound technical work, minus any attempt to manipulate prints. With more experience Whangarei would send out some good work, because such scenes as Mr Howard Smith's yacht in full sail off Kioreroa, and the topsail schooner off Marsden Point and with Manaia as a background suggested that members were on the track of pictures, but had yet to learn how to develop their possibilities. In the yacht scene the sky was lacking in control, but the lower half of the picture was decidedly pleasing. Mr Roy Drummond's harbour view was the most ambitious effort from the point of view of size, but its tone was not pleasing. Another of his exhibits, a view taken in Mair Park was described as a tangle and utterly devoid of interest.



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THE NORTHERN WINTER EXHIBITION, 1923

To be held on 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th June.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART
Should be well represented. Every member of the Whangarei Camera Club should put in an Exhibit. Young and old are catered for.



30th JULY 1945  Page 2 - NORTHERN ADVOCATE

OBITUARY

Mr. LIONEL HANLON

The death occurred on Saturday night of Mr Lionel Hanlon, aged 87, a highly respected pioneer of the Whangarei district and for many years one of the best known authorities on fruit growing in New Zealand.

Born near Belfast, Northern Ireland, he came to the colony in 1881 and almost immediately acquired a farming property at Tikipunga, where he made the growing of pip and stone fruit his principal interest. Forty five years ago he built a fine home, Rosemount, on a knoll giving an unsurpassed view of the Mairtown area. On his frontages to Kamo Road and Nixon Street he planted a large orchard of sweet oranges and lemons and later extended his activities by acquiring Mr Dobbie’s groves at Stonyhill, off Mill Road. Of an active and inquiring mind, Mr Hanlon undertook much research into all branches of fruit-growing and was appointed the first orchard instructor and inspector in New Zealand, resigning after a year’s service in order to concentrate upon his own interests in Northland. In 1909 he represented New Zealand at an international fruit exhibition held in France, and he showed there plums which arrived in perfect condition and which were believed to be the first stone fruit ever shipped from New Zealand to Europe. The only blemishes on them were caused by spectators pinching the fruit, which they imagined to be of wax. Returning via the United States, Mr Hanlon undertook on behalf of the Government, considerable citrus culture research work. He visited Mr Luther Burbank and obtained from his Californian nurseries several varieties of fruit trees which he introduced to New Zealand for the first time.

A keen botanist and horticulturist, Mr Hanlon, in his glasshouses and out of doors, was always experimenting with plants and trees which might be induced to grow in Northland’s favorable climate.

Continuously for 29 years ending in 1942 Mr Hanlon was official meteorological observer for Whangarei in an honorary capacity.

For over 40 seasons without a break, Mr Hanlon fished the trout waters of Taupo, his last participation in his favorite sport being only a few months ago. He was also one of the first to appreciate the possibilities of deep sea fishing in New Zealand, and with an extra powerful reel, used for kingfish, landed several of the first swordfish ever caught by an angler in Cape Brett waters.

A foundation member of the Whangarei Camera Club, he won many prizes as an amateur photographer. In more recent years he found much pleasure in bowling, and was an old member of the Kensington Club.

Mr Hanlon is survived by his widow and four children of an earlier marriage, his first wife having predeceased him. The sons are Messrs Charles Hanlon (Huapai) and Dudley Hanlon (Kaitaia), and the daughters, Mesdames T. Senn (Kamo Rd., Whangarei) and L. Wilmot (Brown's Bay, Auckland).

The funeral was at Ketinikau Cemetery this afternoon. The service was conducted by Archdeacon A.E. Prebble.