Apprentices

Date: 1845

By: Dodge, William, 1830-

Reference: MS-Papers-2897

Description: Apprenticeship indenture to Francis George of Chertsey, Surrey, a peruke (wig) maker Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter

Date: 1875-1972

By: Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners

Reference: MS-Group-1152

Description: The collection comprises the records of the Wellington branches of the union, as well as National Executive papers and and general union material. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See 89-317 (part of MS-Group-0415) for further records; also 89-346 for original of NZ Labour Party Wellington Branch minute book (photocopy at MS-Papers-7630). Wellington Branch minute books 1939-1946 at MSY-3277-3279. Arrangement: Collection remains largely unsorted and the correspondence files will not be found in sequence. Use `Refine' search by date and/or title to locate files. Quantity: 33 box(es). 11 volume(s). 5 folder(s). 11 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photo of Auckland District Office - To Ephemera Collection - Large Victory Loan poster.

Date: 1878-1912, 1955

By: Prince family

Reference: MS-Papers-1545

Description: Lists of shipwrecks off NZ coast and Chatham Islands in 19th century; R K Prince's indenture of apprenticeship as printer; correspondence re land purchase by E Prince; fragmentary family history; poem entitled `In memoriam SS "Penguin"'; souvenir of the `Nimrod' expedition (1908-1909) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 5 Aug 1878

By: Berry, Guy, active 1878-1887

Reference: MS-Papers-2545

Description: Articles of Apprenticeship made `between William Berry of the City of Wellington Gentleman of the first part Guy Berry his son of the second part and John Newton Coleridge of the said City of Wellington Civil Engineer and Surveyor of the third part'. Source of title - Supplied title Civil engineer Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Provenance: Donor is son of Guy Berry

Date: 1925 (2000)

By: Molesworth, Robert MacKinnon, active 2000

Reference: MS-Papers-6818

Description: Reminiscences written by Ernest Molesworth in 1925 about his time aboard the wool clipper `Collingwood'. He had been accepted as an apprentice at the age of seventeen by the shipping company Devitt and Moore to sail on the London to New Zealand run and return, 1875-1876 Includes introduction by Bob Molesworth which provides details about the Collingwood, ships' apprentices, the American evangelists Moody and Sankey, and biographical information about his grandfather. Appendix contains an edited transcript of Thomas Heath's narrative of the voyage written in verse, as well as stories of events that took place during the voyage. The Heath manuscript is held in the Manuscripts Section [qMS-0940] Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - Apprenticeship in a clipper, or memories of the sea, 1875 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1880s - 1960, 1974

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Barnicoat, John Wallis, 1814-1905

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-041

Description: Photographs of places and personalities, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes Maori portraits and groups on marae, including the Duke and Duchess of York meeting Maui Pomare in 1927. Includes a photograph of the crowded deck of the `Waikere' a few minutes before the boat struck land in Dusky Sound in 1910. Also photographs of knighthood being confered upon George Richardson in Samoa; an archaeological site near Rotorua; Kumara, Westland, in 1886; Empire Day celebrations 1905; the first annual apprentice exam held at the Hutt shops, Hutt Valley, in 1930; and sketches of Riccarton House, Canterbury, made by J W Barnicoat in 1844 and R Park circa 1859. Photographers include Burton Bros, Muir & Moodie and Paul Popper. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1877, 1894

By: New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd. Christchurch Branch

Reference: MS-Papers-2914

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-099

Description: Shows three frames illustrating unrelated topics. The first frame is titled 'Sir Paul Dukes, leading yoga exponent visiting city' and shows a man attempting a yoga pose. The next frame shows a young man arriving home after his first day as an apprentice. He says to his father, 'Oh, I got on good-oh, Dad! And that's eight hours off my 10,000 hours apprenticeship!' The final frame is titled 'Tunnel Road to cost about [GBP]1,000,000 less than estimate.' It shows a man suggesting that the extra million dollars go towards an 'estuary playground' for Christchurch Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 18 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Leckey, Richard Edward, 1937-

Reference: OHInt-0562/07

Description: Richard Leckey was born in Gazaiabad in 1937. Explains that his father worked for the railways, talks about his transfers and recalls memories of Kotri, railway houses and servants. Mentions his brothers and step-sisters, his own schooling at Lawrence College. Recalls his experiences of partition. Talks of his sister living in New Zealand, followed by the rest of the family, and his father's money in India. Talks of his carpentry apprenticeship in Auckland and describes his various jobs with hydro schemes. Mentions his wife's work on a psychiatric ward, his work in the same hospital and at a freezing works. Mentions his returned serviceman's loan, wanting to buy land. Talks of Maori associations, his genealogy, the SAS in New Zealand and why he left it. Explains the changes in his religions and mentions Indian religions. Talks of his family in Australia, Pakistan and England, school uniform, western clothes, mealtimes and games played and mixing with Muslim children. Mentions club membership and cultural differences. Talks of his drinking habit, settling in New Zealand and outlines the differences in lifestyle. Talks about his property in Karamea, and interest in forestry, his carpentry and building. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008512, OHC-008513 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2645.

Date: 21 Feb 2000

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Barlow, Wilfred Ainslie, 1929-2004

Reference: OHInt-0562/02

Description: Wilfred Ainslie Barlow, known as Bill, was born in Calcutta on 24.10.1929, an only child. Talks about Indian, British and New Zealand passports and arrival in New Zealand, October 1971. Mentions grandfathers. Talks of father's job in Licence Measures Dept. in shipping, while mother was a stenographer. Grew up with servants, brought up by friend with three children. Talks of father, a catholic until he became a Freemason, and mother was Anglican. Mentions that he was not compelled to go to church, but attended Victoria School, Kurseong, which was Anglican with other denominations present. Talks of uniform, religions and standard of education, attaining Senior Cambridge. Describes being an apprentice engineer and training opportunities, also the five years as an A Grade apprentice in Kharagpur with mainly Anglo-Indians, then going to sea. Discusses the loyalties of Anglo-Indians. Talks about his parents' families in India, his parents' illnesses and early deaths and the whereabouts of the friend which brought him up. Talks of rented accommodation in Calcutta. Describes other Anglo-Indian communities, jobs and social life. Describes railway employee socials, dances and sports. Describes the family's accommodation, mentions western style clothing. Talks about childhood fun, food and related customs, languages including Hindi, Telagu. Mentions his accommodation and bearer. Talks about gaining his engineering ticket in England on completion of his apprenticeship, then working as a junior engineer in shipping. Describes tenants in his accommodation, the loss of his possessions. Mentions meeting his UK wife, his friends who left India and attitudes of Indians. Talks of the book 'Bhowani Junction' portraying Anglo-Indians and how they treated women. Talks of Raj wives and orphanages, club membership, class distinction and differences in races. Describes Calcutta at the time of partition. Mentions his jobs with freighters and applying to emigrate to New Zealand with his family. Talks of job with Union Steamship Co.and conditions. Gives reasons for going to Auckland and Lyttelton. Mentions conditions in India when he returned, settling in other countries, the colour issue and people's attitudes to Anglo-Indians. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008501, OHC-008502 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2639.

Date: 14 Dec 1994

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Saunders, Alfred Carr, 1911-2010

Reference: OHInt-0444-06

Description: Alfred Saunders born at Point Halswell, Wellington 1911. Recalls his father was an artilleryman in the army, stationed at the Point to look after the large gun there. Talks about growing up on the Miramar Peninsula, Fort Ballance and other forts around the harbour. Also talks about period when father left the army and they moved to Whangaroa where his father took up crayfishing. Recalls leaving school at the age of 15 years and commencing an apprenticeship as a shipwright with B J L Jukes Ltd, a boatbuilder in Balena Bay, Wellington. Describes his duties as an apprentice and explains that many of the boats worked on at the yard belonged to Island Bay and Eastbourne fishermen. Mentions living at Paraparaumu where he built a 40 foot fishing vessel called `May' for a Mr Buckland at Plimmerton during the Great Depression. Refers to his work during World War II, describing some of the vessels he worked on which were commandeered by the navy. After the war went fishing from Paremata and details type of fishing and fish caught. Describes location of his boat yard at Paremata foreshore where he built a number of fishing and pleasure craft. Talks about the Sea Reaper, a vessel of 50 feet in length that he built and operated with his sons during the 1960s. Talks about the crayfish boom at the Chathams and the big demand for vessels. Mentions some of the problems encountered with the Marine Department surveyors and the modern fishing regulations. Talks about son, Harold, who has a boatbuilding business in Tory Channel in the Marlborough Sounds. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 54 Paremata Road Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010226-010227 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3415.

Date: 1839

By: Dadd, - Henry, active 1839

Reference: MS-Papers-2922

Description: Made out between Henry Dadd, apprentice, and James Daniels, master, both of Kent Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter

Date: [1861-1902]

From: Dominion Museum : Historical material

Reference: fMS-Papers-6073-3

Description: Comprises indenture of apprenticeship agreement between G W Dennent (apprentice) and Henry Ringham, Ipswich, carpenter and carver (1861); passport to Russia for Maria Simpson (1883); and licence to accept the Insignia of the Fourth Class of the Imperial Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh of J A Grant de Salamos (1902) Arrangement: Nos 7, 8, and 9 on accession list of non-Pacific material in accession 73-017, listed 12 Oct 1968 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 folders).

Date: 1979

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-562

Description: The three scenes in this cartoon show how motorists in the 1970s had to put up with a variety of impediments to motoring. In the top right a motorist has drawn up in front of the petrol bowsers only to read that there is no petrol because of a tanker drivers' strike. In the lower left a car owner is looking on as his car is being fixed. The garage owner tells him that his car will be ready 'in about $250 time'. In the lower right a motorist has drawn up in front of a petrol bowser to find that petrol prices have risen again; he has 'been overtaken by the OPEC oil price increase'. Extended Title - This is good news for the car owner who can expect to continue to motor in the manner to which he has become accustomed - Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 320 x 464 mm

Date: [ca 1870s-1960s]

By: Elder, Jonette, active 2008-2010; Baily, Henry Hall, active 1861-1910; Bishop-Osborn, John, 1851?-1934; Bock, Alfred, 1835-1920; Burton, Walter John, 1836-1880; Clifford, J, active 1870s?; Clifford, Samuel, 1827-1890; Wherrett, Charles, 1832-1882; Woolley, Charles Alfred, 1834-1922

Reference: PAColl-9787

Description: Photographs of Francis and Shaw families, Hobart, Wellington and New Plymouth. Includes carte de viste portraits (most unidentified) from Hobart, Melbourne; Oldham and Halifax, carte dev viste landscapes and scenery of Hobart; Studio portraits of the Francis family in New Zealand; wedding portrait of James George and Nola Ross Francis in 1950; New Zealand soldiers at Rotorua; Group portraits of New Zealand soldiers during World War Two; Plumbing Apprentice group portrait; St Thomas' Young Men's Bible Class of 1931 Accompanying material - Photocopies of newspaper article, James George Francis' birth certificate, register entry for marriage of James George Francis and Nola Ross Elder, and death certificate for James George Francis (See Photographic Archive back file) Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from here - To Ephemera Collection - Box of ball cards, WW2 greeting card, 15 Coast Battery Christmas cards 1933-1935, 2 Christmas cards, St Thomas' Church (Wellington) first communion card for Kezia Shaw 1901, Victory Day pamphlet, 1946, Modern album containing Shaw family postcards. - To Manuscripts & Archives - Correspondence relating to Shaw family funerals, death certificate for James George Francis, marriage certificate for James George Francis, photocopy of marriage certificate for James Ernest Francis - To Book Collections - 1 Bible, 2 Book of Common Prayer, Mylius's School Dictionary, St Thomas' Parish Magazine March 1915, Mothers Union Dominion News Oct 1934..

Date: 1899

By: Coldicott, Claude Ernest Addison, 1883-1962

Reference: MS-Papers-1457

Description: Indenture to serve John William Robinson, chemist and druggist, Parnell, Auckland, 11 Sep 1899 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1840

By: Gill, Richard, active 1840

Reference: MS-Papers-2904

Description: Indenture for as apprentice to Robert Wilson to learn the trade of wheelwright Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter

Date: 17 April 1984 - 17 Apr 1984

From: NZOHA Customs Department Oral History Project Part II

By: O'Rourke, Bernard Thomas, 1913-1994

Reference: OHInt-0101/14

Description: Bernard Thomas O'Rourke born Christchurch 1913. Recalls his mother's death when he was ten years of age and reflects on its affect on him. Recalls leaving school and getting an apprenticeship as a car painter. Describes pay and conditions and becoming second-in-charge of Motor Assemblies in Christchurch. Mentions introduction of spray painting and decision to learn in Wellington, later moving to Motor Assemblies, building Dodge and Packard cars. Recalls being with Motor Assemblies, Christchurch when firm was founded. Discusses World War II, enlisting and being accepted for the Air Force and explains why he didn't go overseas. Discusses employment with Air Force (1941-1961), starting as a Fabric worker and explains details of fabricking, working on the Baffin, Tiger moth, Vampires and Harvards. Refers to passing exams and ending up as a Flight Sergeant. Describes involvement in air crash over the Waimakariri River, with reference to Dakota. Backgrounds decision to leave Air Force and join Customs Department, becoming a P O (Prevention Officer) at Lyttelton, later becoming a searcher. Describes searches / rumaging of ships; immigration checks; smuggling, with reference to opium and illegal importation of cannabis. Recalls promotion being on merit and length of service. Describes duties as Boarding Inspector at Lyttelton. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000514, 000515, 000516A Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0100. 3 b&w photographs: (i) Bernie and Maude O'Rourke; (ii) Bernie O'Rourke (3rd from L) with other Preventive Officers, Lyttelton (1960's) and (iii) Bernard Thomas O'Rourke (1978). Search dates: 1913 - 1984

Date: 17 July 1989 - 17 Jul 1989

From: Winstone Group of Companies Oral History Project

By: Betham, Frederick Kurt, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0152/03

Description: Frederick Kurt Hufnagel-Betham (ka Jim Betham) born Auckland. Outlines family background - father born in Samoa. Grandfather, Kurt Hufnagel was German, captain of a whaling ship who retired to Samoa and had a Copra plantation. Grandmother, Catherine Ann Hufnagel (nee Betham) came from village of Betham, Carnforth, South Westmoreland, England. Bethams (Beethams) emigrated to Australia, New Zealand, Samoa. Reference to Bruce Beetham (MP, Social Credit, 1978-1984) and Beethams of Wairarapa. Recalls childhood memories of big spaces, servants and hurricanes in Samoa and also of Queen Street, Auckland after the riots in 1930s. Gives history of Samoa. Describes Mau, Samoan Independence Movement. Gives details of Count von Lucknow and his background. Discusses employment, doing a 5 year engineering apprenticeship at A & G Price Ltd, Auckland 1943-1948, with the intention of becoming a ship's engineer. Explains why, on completion of apprenticeship, he decided on change of career and joined Lunn Avenue Quarry, Winstone Ltd, Auckland, as junior draughtsman, and serving at the quarry until 1974, becoming Quarry Superintendent. Describes role of Winstone Ltd during World War II - supplied concrete for military airport, Whenuapai and a large amount of road work. Gives geological background of Basalt Quarry. Mentions Alan Adams, Leo Foster, Angus (Gus) McKay and Bruce Winstone. Talks about the Trade Union and staff relations. Other topics mentioned include; accidents, with reference to Noel Strid who was killed; workers who included Maori, Dalmations, Norwegians and Scots; Winstone Quarry, Plimmerton with reference to Cam Kay, Tom Wilkinson and Eric Gallimore; Mines Department certification, describing explosion training on site and rules for working with explosives. Backgrounds appointment as Group Environmental Officer (1974-1981). Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 4 Homai Street, Remuera, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002827-002829 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0529.

Date: 14 September 1989 - 14 Sep 1989

From: Winstone Group of Companies Oral History Project

By: Barbarich, Anthony Mathew, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0152/02

Description: Anthony Mathew Barbarich born Paparoa, New Zealand. Outlines family background - father came to New Zealand from Yugoslavia in 1898 and was naturalised in 1905. Mother came in 1934. Refers to marriage which was arranged by post. Recalls childhood in Mangawhai, where father was a gum digger, until the age of 10 when family moved to Auckland and established a fish and chip shop, `New Zealandia' in Hobson Street; Memories of World War II - American convoy coming through Mangawhai, sinking of ship, Niagara off the Mangawhai coast, and army blowing up mines. Outlines his career with Winstone Limited, Auckland, starting as an apprentice motor mechanic / vehicle maintenance in 1952, with reference to Les Waygood, manager of Winstones garage; Planning Officer 1966; Garage engineer 1970; Distribution manager, 1974; Corporate Distribution manager, 1979; General Manager, Dimond Industries 1983 and Deputy General manager, Fletcher Diamond, Auckland 1988- . Gives details of Winstones large Road Transport Company and competitor, New Zealand Express Co and J J Craig; Truck fleet in 1950s - Chevrolet (1948 and 1942 models), `S' Model Bedford; Motor car fleet - 1946, 1948 Vauxhalls, 1946 Morris 10s, Chrysler, Studebaker, De Soto and Dodge. Mentions Engineers Union - not actively involved but had no choice. Recalls lack of female workers in garage and compares with the present day - lady motor mechanics. Discusses Corporatisation of Winstone Ltd; Diamond Industries, bought by Winstones in the early 1970s; Brierley Investments Limited and sale of Winstone Ltd to Fletcher Challenge in 1988. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Fletcher Dimond, 119 Carbine Road, Mount Wellington, Auckland Accompanying material - Papers relating to Fletcher Challenge Senior Executive Basic Review - Basic data (photocopies); Garage newsletter and copies of letters. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002836-002838 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0528.