Forest conservation

Date: 1922 - 1930

From: [New Zealand State Forest Service]: Selection of maps with manuscript additions

By: New Zealand. State Forest Service; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Neill, William Thomson, 1864-1943

Reference: MapColl-832.45gcrc/1924-30/Acc.53901

Description: Base Lands & Survey cadastral map with manuscript additions showing Rewa Survey District VI State Forest No. 47, Waihora Stream and Mt Meredith "Forest Atlas Wn.091" "163/3L" "Certified correct under Section 25 of the Forests Act 1921-1922" [signed William Thomson Neill] "Surveyor General 17.6.24" Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, linen-backed, hand-coloured with manuscript annotations in pen and ink, scale [1:12,500], 75 x 76 cm

Date: 1983

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-251

Description: Draft of Fleming's submission on the Kaimaki-Mamaku Forest Park submission on management plan revision; copy of Joint submission on behalf of Eastern Bay of Plenty Forest and Bird Protection Society and Whakatane branch of the Native Forests Action Council in response to the New Zealand Forest Service Kaimai-Mamaku State Forest Park draft management plan 1983; The Mamaku catchments - production or protection by the Waikato Federated Farmers; draft report to QEII National Trust - Lake Taupo reserves current issues; Review of the total area of water-shed protection forest for the Coromandel-Kaimai-Mamaku range as shown in the Waihou Valley scheme plan of recommended land use; Joint Campaign on Native Forests newsletters and other associated documents Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (photocopies)

Date: 1972-2019

By: Action for Environment (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-1751

Description: Comprises correspondence, administration records, publicity and planning documents relating to coastal and harbour protection, beech forests utilisation, native forests, water and soil issues, river and stream protection, town planning subdivision, transport and motorway issues, landfills, recycling, litter, noxious animals, nuclear issues, mining, sewage, pollution, energy, Wellington town belt and regional parks and reserves, national parks and mining. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Each folder has correspondence, reports, submissions, press releases, newsclippings etc; only significantly different content has been noted. The 2020 donation was originally housed in manila folders within two boxes. Each folder had handwritten titles. The archivist created a series for the material related to the Wellington Town Belt. Records mainly from the period the late Helen Rainforth was secretary; other papers also from acting secretary. Quantity: 95 folder(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Organisation is a Wellington one, formed 1972. Processing information: The annotations on the original manila folders were photocopied onto acid free paper and these photocopies are housed with the material.

Date: 1983

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-151

Description: Mainly inward correspondence relating to ornithology, publications and conservation issues including the rat threat to the Snares Islands of fishing boats landing and the logging of native forests at Whirinaki, Mamaku and the west coast of the South Island. Letters are selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1984

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-155

Description: Mainly inward correspondence relating to ornithology, publications and conservation issues including the rat threat to the Snares Islands of fishing boats landing and the logging of native forests at Whirinaki, Mamaku and the west coast of the South Island. Includes `Report on a visit to islands in Breaksea and Dusky sounds' by Kim Morrison. Letters are selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1983

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-150

Description: Mainly inward correspondence relating to ornithology, publications and conservation issues including the rat threat to the Snares Islands of fishing boats landing and the logging of native forests at Whirinaki, Mamaku and the west coast of the South Island. Letters are selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1998

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-448-103/124

Description: Political cartoons. Comment on the lack of consultion with the Ministry of Women's Affairs regarding National's Code of Social responsibility. East Coast Maori use dubious methods to stamp out intimidation during a land protest. The Broadcasting Minister defends his proposal to introduce ads onto National Radio. The Minister of Energy, Max Bradford defends privatisation of the electricity supply in the face of power blackouts throughout Auckland. Jenny Shipley takes a hard-line against assisting Auckland in the midst of their 7 week power crisis. National Party Ministers run for cover as Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley calls for heads to roll over the Auckland power crisis. Jenny Shipley's image as 'ordinary' housewife and mother is questioned on her trip to Japan. Curator Ian Wedde, defends the 'Virgin in a Condom' exhibit at Te Papa. National's Health Minister, Bill English reassures the public that local surgery is at crisis point. NZ Post end free delivery of Talking Books to the blind. Ruth Richardson announces her intention to stand for ACT in the Taranaki by-election. Comment on the last remaining stands of West Coast Rimu forest. More cracks appear in the Health system. New Zealand's economic position is blamed on the Asian crisis with lower paid workers bearing the brunt of restraints on wage increases. Comment on emergency services failing to get to call-outs within a reasonable time. Comment on another Hurricanes rugby team loss. Jenny Shipley regrets she's unable to make grand gestures like Russian leader, Boris Yeltsin, who recently sacked his entire government. Winston Peters is awarded an Oscar for his best supporting role in a comedy or farce in the coalition government. Comment on the Americans insistance on carrying arms even when it's a child carrying an assault rifle. Paralells drawn between rioting at Paremoremo Prision and Winston Peters rioting within the coalition government. Discussion which shows how the National Party cabinet works. Winston Peters trys to knock the New Zealand economy into shape by the use of threats and violence. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1984

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-156

Description: Mainly inward correspondence relating to ornithology, publications and conservation issues. These issues include the rat threat to the Snares Islands of fishing boats landing and the logging of native forests at Whirinaki, Mamaku and the west coast of the South Island. Letters are selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1983

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-148

Description: Mainly inward correspondence relating to ornithology, publications and conservation issues including the rat threat to the Snares Islands of fishing boats landing and the logging of native forests at Whirinaki, Mamaku and the west coast of the South Island. Letters are selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 11 Dec 1979

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1979/4353-F

Description: Original caption reads: "Forestry spokesman for the Environment and Conservation Organisations (ECO) Mr Guy Salmon unfurls a symbolic unsigned cheque made out to Minginui Sawmills Limited for $500,000 on the steps of Parliament yesterday. "Conservation organisations have been pressing the Government to extend such a loan so that the Minginui mill could afford to install machinery to process exotic (pine) timber at its Whirinaki State forest site. "The cheque, representing a Development Finance Corporation suspensory loan, was presented to the deputy Opposition leader, Mr David Lange, yesterday afternoon as part of a conservation protest at Parliament. "The organisations say that a suspensory loan would in effect provide a guarantee to continued employment to the Mingunui village residents." (Evening Post, 12 Dec, 1979). Evening Post photograph. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1968-1971

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: 87-208-108

Description: Mainly inward correspondence relating to ornithology, cicadas and conservation issues particularly native forest conservation and the Save the Manapouri campaign. Includes correspondence about Fleming's suggestion that the Government purchase Little Mangere Island in the Chatham Islands to protect the birdlife. Letters selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-

Reference: H-618-001/074

Description: 74 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include National Party style ('radical conservatism'), political aspects of the ban on native forest logging on the West Coast, bribery and corruption in international cricket, softening of the macho image of Super 12 Players, the fatal shooting Steven Wallace by police in Waitara, email viruses, underage drinking, tax on cigarettes, greenhouse gas emission control, the entrenched position of Christine Rankin, Head of WINZ, television presenter Paul Holmes, the sale of the cell phone spectrum to Maori, Americas' Cup yachtsmen, the rebel coup in Fiji, prisoners' rights, All Black rugby, Maori activisim and cultural sensitivites, the falling New Zealand dollar, falling business confidence, the Employments Contracts Act, the legal staus of cannabis, the Coalition between the Labour Party and Alliance, the flight of underpaid and overworked young doctors from New Zealand, unseasonable weather, the meeting between the Presidents of North and South Korea, the Budget, the Government's 'Closing the Gaps' policy, underfunding of the army, muck-raking by ACT politician Richard Prebble, drugs in sport, the takeover by Qantas of Ansett New Zealand, political scandal and the sacking of Dover Samuels as Minister of Maori Affairs, child abuse, dangerous driving by truck drivers, the conflict over Israel, the dangers of excusing away mental illness, Helen Clark's leadership style, alcohol and sportsmen, railway accidents, republicism and Tandor Nancos of the Green Party, the Bledisloe Cup, cannabis use, forest fires in the United States, extended sittings in Parliament, the Employment Relations Bill, speed limits, the loss of Kursk, the Russian submarine, defence expenditure, controversy over Maori domestic violence, rising petrol prices. Quantity: 74 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal bromides

Date: 1927 - 1944

From: [New Zealand State Forest Service]: Selection of maps with manuscript additions

By: New Zealand. State Forest Service; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Dick, Russell Gladstone, 1898-1966

Reference: MapColl-832.3gcrf/1944/Acc.53898

Description: Base Lands & Survey cadastral map showing Puketitiri Fire District. Season 1st November - 31st March. G.1927, p412, 1944, p1288 Forest Atlas "WN064" Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, linen-backed, hand-coloured with manuscript annotations in pen and ink, scale [ca.1:63 360], 56 x 78cm.

From: [New Zealand State Forest Service]: Selection of maps with manuscript additions

By: New Zealand. State Forest Service; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-832.45gcrc/1922.33/Acc.53900

Description: Manuscript map showing specific plantings of tree species in State Forest No. 31 around Masterton "Part State Forest Number 31" "158/28 L" "Blocks VI & VII" "Mikimiki Survey District" Inset shows map of nursery site Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, linen-backed, hand-coloured manuscript map with annotations in pen and ink, [scale 1:63 360], 71 x 66 cm

Date: 1900 - 1936

From: [New Zealand State Forest Service]: Selection of maps with manuscript additions

By: New Zealand. State Forest Service; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Neill, William Thomson, 1864-1943

Reference: MapColl-832.18gcrc/1924/Acc.53903

Description: Base Lands & Survey cadastral map showing part Karioi S.D. and Ruapehu S.D. [ie. Survey District] and Tongariro National Park area, near Ninia township. "Certified correct under Section 25 of the Forests Act 1921-1922" [signed William Thomson Neill] "Surveyor General 9.12.24". "122/1" "Karioi Survey District" Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Certified correct under Section 25 of the Forests Act 1921-1922, [signed William Thomson Neill] Surveyor General 9.12.24. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, linen-backed, hand-coloured with manuscript annotations in pen, pencil and ink, scale [ca.1:12 500], 73.5 x 73.5 cm.

Date: 1936

From: [New Zealand State Forest Service]: Selection of maps with manuscript additions

By: New Zealand. State Forest Service; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Walshe, Harry Edward, 1883-1948

Reference: MapColl-832.18gcrc/1936/Acc.53904

Description: Hand-coloured manuscript cadastral map showing part State Forest No.85, in the Karioi S.D. [ie. Survey District] and Rangiwaea block, showing Te unauna a Kapua te Ariki and Tokiahuru streams. Colour key code given. "122/19L" Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured manuscript map in pen and ink, 73 x 73 cm.

Date: 1978-1985

From: Young, David Christopher 1947-: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11966-03

Description: Papers relating to the Native Forests Action Council and their campaigns to stop logging at Whirinaki and at the Pureora State Forest. Includes press statements, the New Zealand Forest Service's policy on Central North Island indigenous forests (1978), management plan proposals of the Rotorua Conservancy for Whirinaki State Forest and other papers. Included and apparently unrelated are assignment notes for the staff of the New Zealand Listener on topics to cover in the 10 June 1985 issue. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1924 - 1934

From: [New Zealand State Forest Service]: Selection of maps with manuscript additions

By: New Zealand. State Forest Service; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Neill, William Thomson, 1864-1943

Reference: MapColl-832.18gcrc/1924-34/Acc.53916

Description: Base Lands and Survey cadastral map showing part of State Forest no.42; Wellington Conservation region, Tongariro National Park, Makatote and Mangaturturu Streams, Manganui a te Ao River, Manganui Survey District, Erua [Reserve], P[ar]t no.67, Key to State Forest and Provisional State Forest C[rown] L[and] Title supplied by cataloguer "Certified correct under Section 25 of the Forests Act 1921-1922" [signed William Thomson Neill] "Surveyor General 9.12.24". "121/2" Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Certified correct under Section 25 of the Forests Act 1921-1922, [signed William Thomson Neill] Surveyor General 9.12.24;; Recto - bottom right - "121/2"; Recto - centre right - Tongariro National Park Act 1922 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, linen-backed paper, hand-coloured with manuscript annotations in pencil, pen and ink, scale [ca.1:15840]; 76 x 76 cm.

From: [New Zealand State Forest Service]: Selection of maps with manuscript additions

By: New Zealand. State Forest Service; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Neill, William Thomson, 1864-1943

Reference: MapColl-832.41gcrc/1926-34/Acc.53907

Description: Base Lands & Survey cadastral map showing State Forest No.53 and Forest Reserves No.342 and 347 in the Mangahao and Gorge Survey Districts. Also shows withdrawn forest area No.53, Manawatu River and Palmerston-Napier Railway [line]. A key shows State Forests and Forest Reserves in different colours. Title supplied by cataloguer "Certified correct under Section 25 of the Forests Act 1921-1922" [signed William Thomson Neill] "Surveyor General 10.5.26" "149/12L" "Mangahao Survey District" Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - "Certified correct under Section 25 of the Forests Act 1921-1922" [signed William Thomson Neill] "Surveyor General 10.5.26"; Recto - bottom right - "149/12L" Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, linen-backed, hand-coloured with manuscript annotations in pen, pencil and ink, scale [ca.1:15 840], 74 x 74 cm.

Date: 1925 - 1926

From: [New Zealand State Forest Service]: Selection of maps with manuscript additions

By: New Zealand. State Forest Service; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Neill, William Thomson, 1864-1943

Reference: MapColl-832.18gcrc/1925-1926/Acc.53915

Description: Base Lands and Surveys cadastral map showing part of State Forest no.42 and part of [State Forest] no. 66 and 88, Wellington Conservation Region, township of Owhango; Whakapapa River; Piopiotea St[rea]m, Kakahi Stream, Waimarino- Taumarunui Road, Main trunk Railway, Oio Valley Road, Parts of Hunua, Waimanu and Kaitiek Survey Districts as gazetted. Also shows withdrawn areas. "Certified correct under Section 25 of the Forests Act 1921-1922" [signed William Thomson Neill] "Surveyor General 10.5.26"; "111/2" Title supplied by cataloguer Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Certified correct under Section 25 of the Forests Act 1921-22, [signed William Thomson Neill] Surveyor General 10.5.26. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, linen-backed paper,hand-coloured with manuscript annotations in pen and ink, scale [ca.1:15 840]; 76 x 76 cm.