Rabbit hunting

Date: 1876

Reference: Eph-B-SHOW-1876-01

Description: Lists competitions to be held in the following classes: Thoroughbred horses, Draught horses, Pure-bred cattle, Cattle not thoroughbred, Fat cattle, Sheep, Merino sheep, Leicester sheep, Cotswold sheep, Lincoln sheep, Romney Marsh sheep, Fat sheep, Pigs, Poultry, Rabbit dogs, Implements. Signed Thomas Frethey, Secretary. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on both sides of small poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress, on both sides of sheet 302 x 225 mm.

Date: [ca 1940-1967]

From: Danilow family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6470-003

Description: Includes list of music pieces; unused greetings card; newspaper clippings in English and German on a variety of topics; Charles Begg accounts; examination results; notices re seminars, recitals by Danilow's pupils; programme for Vienna concert (1958); Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music pupil reports and results (1963-1964); 12-page typed copy of Nicholas Danilow's `Second letter from a New Zealand sheep run' describing his life as a rabbit hunter, his dogs, horse, tramping and other aspects of life on a sheep run at Kurow (16 Mar 1940); J & W Chester piano solo music; and copies of practical music exams results from Wellington papers (Danilow pupils underlined) (1963-1967) Language - Some clippings in German Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 6, 8 October 1992 - 06 Oct 1992 - 08 Oct 1992

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Grant, Rose Frances, 1905-2004; Reid, Becky, active 1992

Reference: OHInt-0148/13

Description: Rose speaks of her isolated rural upbringing near the small community of Glenorchy at the head of Lake Wakatipu. She has spent her whole life in this area and still lives in the family home that her parents moved to when she was about 10 years old. her working life has focused on farming. Unpaid jobs involved mainly rabbiting, milking and feeding the stock. She recalls the history of tourism, mining and timber milling in the Glenorchy area. Speaks of farming today and of raising 140 sheep and 20 cattle not to mention her main friends - 20 cats. Single handedly she keeps the family property running and thrives on life, simply living off the land, with a grand respect for nature. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Glenorchy Interviewer(s) - Becky Reid Venue - Glenorchy Accompanying material - Photographs of house at Turners Creek, Kinloch (father on white horse and mill in background); house at Glenorchy; Rose at races ca 1990/1; Rose and brother Bill ca 1917. Newspaper article "Meet Rosy; Battler from Glenorchy" Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018547-018549; OHLC-00986-009988 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Electronic document(s) recording information form. 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6425 and OHDL-000747.

Date: 1984-1991

From: Day, Delyn, 1964-: Collection relating to Andrew Brough and Alistair Galbraith

Reference: PAColl-10816

Description: Comprises 39 photographs that relate to Delyn Day's relationships with Dunedin musicians Alistair Galbraith and Andrew Brough. Photographs PA-Coll-10816-01 to PA-Coll-10816-02 show Day, Galbraith and 3 unidentified people during the filming of the television series Hanlon in Dunedin in 1984 and a painting by Galbraith. Photographs PA-Coll-10816-03 to PA-Coll-10816-10 are portraits of Brough between the mid 1980’s to early 1990’s and Brough, Day and 5 unidentified people seated at a restaurant. Photographs PA-Coll-10816-11 to PA-Coll-10816-14 are of Day and Brough on a trip to the West Coast circa 1985-1986. Photographs PA-Coll-10816-15 to PA-Coll-10816-22 show Day and Brough on holiday in Central Otago with Graeme and Jo Downes, including activities such as skinning rabbits and visiting the Vulcan Hotel. Photographs PA-Coll-10816-23 to PA-Coll-10816-25 show Straitjacket Fits performing at the Dunedin venue Chippendale House in July 1987 as part of Graeme and Jo Downes wedding reception. Photographs PA-Coll-10816-26 to PA-Coll-10816-35 show Brough, Day and her son Alan along with other unidentified people holidaying in Nelson in 1990 and PA-Coll-10816-36 to PA-Coll-10816-39 show Brough and Day's son Alan at Auckland Zoo in September 1991. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Upon donating the material to the Library, the donor sat with Curator Music, Michael Brown, and arranged the unordered photographs into groups. Brown created descriptive notes. This information was recorded in the Scope and Contents field and the descriptive notes were discarded. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 36 colour original photographic print(s). 1 folder(s).

Date: [1926-1964]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-046

Description: Comprises tallies of game shot at Thurso Castle, Caithness during 1926-1927, lists of people staying at the castle, list of people with guns, room list, diagram of rooms and guests, invitation to Riddifords to attend Thurso Parks Improvement Scheme bazaar (1927), letters with data re bags obtained at Thurso and Strathmore for 1926 and details of Barrogill Castle and Lude; letters re rental of Thurso, Strathmore and Barrogill and fishing possibilities (1926); information sheets on Thurso Castle and Strathmore accommodation, shooting, fishing and rent (1926); and article from `The Field' on Scottish roe heads (annotated) (23 Apr 1964). Game included grouse, partridges, snipe, duck, hares, golden plover, rabbits, pigeons, geese, stags and salmon. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1938-1947]

From: Danilow family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6470-098

Description: Includes papers relating to Nicholas's applications to emigrate to New Zealand; to his search for his mother and Ariadne de Conne; notice and newspaper reports of the marriage of Ariadne to Nicholas in Dec 1947. Also includes correspondence relating to his application to emigrate to Chile. Also includes letters from Nicholas to persons overseas describing his life on a North Otago sheep run; and articles by him, `A Journey in Estonia' and `The Way to Estonia' from the `Press' (n d) Language - Some papers are in Russian Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1952 - 1953

By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)

Reference: J-036-001/088

Description: New Zealand topics include family life, a proposed atomic power plant for Auckland, rates blowout in Auckland, electoral boundary changes, rising public transport fares, retailing, banking, income tax, agricultural protection policies, power cuts and hydroelectric power, flucating wool prices, financing of and patronage of the arts, telephone tapping, undercover police, education policy and funding of the Education Department, meat imports from Denmark, meat trade with the United States, trade with the USSR, political parties, the cost of living, difficulties funding the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge, the Land Settlement Bill, local body financing, the profitability of the National Airways Corporation, deregulation of power boards, sales tax on motor vehicles and aging vehicles, import controls, traffic accidents and drivers' licences, manners and customs, Royal visit, international borrowing from the United States, public expenditure, taxation, funding of Auckland's sewage scheme, price controls, exchange controls, the budget, strikes, housing policies, the election, betting, rugby, cricket spectators, rabbiters, hairdessing prices and the liquor trade and duck shooting. International topics include relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Empire Finance Ministers Conference, naval command of the Atlantic, climate change and international relations in Europe, the British monarchy, the "communist threat from the 'Red East' ", US President Eisenhower's dealings with USSR President Joseph Stalin, judicial power disputes in South Africa, race relations in South Africa and in Kenya, New Zealand's meat trade with the United States, meat imports from Denmark, New Zealand's trade with the USSR, the American Presidential election, Pacific region relationships, an international air race, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, attacks on British residents in Egypt, the spece of the Korean war, disputes over Persian oil and internal politics in Persia (Iran). Quantity: 88 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies, vertical orientation. Image size approximately 370 by 250 mm.

Date: 03 Sep 1972

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/410

Description: From Con Leary we hear of the hazards and dangers for the rabbiter, especially the ones that do a lot of patroling on horse-back, in areas of rivers and swift mountain streams. Explains how one generally has one's gun, poison gasses and traps on the saddle, so the horse only needs to put a foot wrong and over one goes, landing upside down in a wash-out, getting a foot caught, poison gas escaping, horse thrashing - it can be a very nasty situation. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 114 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0421 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 13 Minutes Duration.

Date: 2 May 1996 - 02 May 1996

From: Netball New Zealand Inc oral history project Stage II

By: Muir, Lois Joan (Dame), 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0517/8

Description: Lois Joan Muir (nee Osborne) born Mataura, 1935. Outlines family background - father, Frank Alexander Osborne, a carrier, owned Osborne's Transport, now Tulloch Transport. Describes childhood: home at Mataura: interest in basketball (netball): chores, cow-milking: rabbit-hunting: Depression; Politics; leisure activities; Church every Sunday at Mataura Presbyterian Church; relationship with parents, with reference to the `Victorian Way' of raising children and father's death aged 43. Mentions Mr Miller, Primary Principal at Mataura school. Recalls leaving school and details responsibility of pharmacy job for two years before taking up position of Coaching Director with Netball New Zealand. Explains decision to retire from playing netball, with reference to husband, Murray Muir. Recalls impact of Australian tour; trials for 1963 World Tournament; tour uniform; Maori entertainment; training on-board-ship and experience of playing in England. Mentions demonstration team for introduction of 1958 changes to International Game. Discusses other tournaments and tendency of bias with umpires in international competition. Other areas discussed include: team spirit; dealing with morale after losing; growth of media coverage of netball; name change from basketball to netball and change from Associations to Unions; level of funding, compares with rugby; sponsorship and publicity; problems with preparation for 1986 Tri-Series with Australia and Jamaica in Christchurch; factors contributing to success, with reference to 87 wins as coach in 102 test matches, and decision to retire in 1988. Discusses time with Hillary Commission; Netball New Zealand project to amalgamate with Men's Netball; impact of Saturday Trading on netball participation; ambassadorial role and personal significance of awards, receiving Life Membership of Otago Netball Umpires' Association; OBE 1984; 1988 Halberg Award for Coach and Administrator of the Year; This is your life, 1989 Television programme / media; 1993 Sports Hall of Fame and New Zealand Netball life membership. Mentions: Sarah Foster; Dixie Cockerton; Nancy King; Joyce McCann; Pam Byram (nee Edmonds); Joan Harnett; Margaret Forsyth; Lee Gibbs; Sandra Edge; Joan Hodgson; Lynn Parker; Tracy Fair and Alastair Snell. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Abstracted by - Matthew Packer Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Photocopies of newspaper cuttings re Lois Muir's career in Netball Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006653-006657; OHLC-002426-002430 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) (2 folders). 4.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1927. 8 photocopies of b&w photographs attached to abstract: (1) Lois Osborne, aged 10 with pet lamb, 1945; (ii) Lois, Norman and Ailsa Osborne; (iii) 1949 Southland County Rep Team, Lois Osborne 2nd from left seated Mrs Archer, coach, standing on right; (iv) Murray and Lois Muir Anderson's Bay Presbyterian Church, 12-3.1955; (v) Dunedin; 1950, New Zealand playing against Australia. Lois Muir with ball; (vi) Lois Muir, 1963 NZ Netball tour of UK. Taken after return to NZ; (vii) 1963 team to tour UK taken before leaving New Zealand - Lois Muir front row, 2nd from right. Dixie Cockerton, coach, back row, far right; (viii) 1963 New Zealand tour of UK, L-R Mrs Joyce McCann (manager), Sir Thomas McDonald (NZ High Commissioner), Mrs Lois Muir (vice-captain), Miss Mirth Te Moananui. Photo taken at NZ House, Haymarket.

Date: Jul 1991

From: Southland oral history project

By: Cairns, Beth, active 1991; Crow, Sonny, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-0464/04

Description: Sonny Crow shot and trapped rabbits both independently and while working for the Rabbit Board. Mentions his parents were rabbiters. Discusses setting three hundred traps a day and how poisoning was done. Mentions the use of ferrets. Discusses the `Food for Britain' rabbit canning factory at Bluff. Talks about skinning rabbits. Mentions properties worked on throughout Southland and people he worked for. Other - This interview was done several years before the rest of the project Interviewer(s) - Beth Cairns Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract OHA-2681. Photos of Sonny Crow on his wedding day, rabbiting and in 1998

Date: 1905

From: Various artists :[Clippings of cartoons published in New Zealand newspapers. 1890s-1905].

By: Rayner, Frederick Richard, active 1893-1908

Reference: A-225-026

Description: Shows Prime Minister Richard Seddon setting a gin trap for rabbits in the moonlight. Politician Joseph Ward is seen on all fours behind a tree in the background. Verses beneath the image describe the unimaginative and dependent behaviour of political candidates allied to Seddon. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on newsprint, 273 x 240 mm. Transfers: Transferred from Ephemera Collection in 2002..

Date: 1915

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to plumbers, plumbing supplies, drainage, plumbing companies]

By: G Methven & Company

Reference: Eph-B-PLUMBING-1915-01

Description: Includes portraits of the staff of G Methven and Company in Dunedin. Illustrated products include: high and low pressure bib cocks, water stop cocks, angle main cocks, plugs, washers and overflows, basins, showers, shower curtains, toilet flushing valves, and cistern pulls, sewage pipes, valves, garden hose fittings, beer and spirit cocks, blowlamps, gas fittings, motor fittings for petrol benzine kerosene and acetylene gas, copper boilers, iron grates, manhole covers, stock brand or searer, lathes, baths, bacon slicers, rabbit exterminator (pump filled with bisulphide of carbon), fire escape. Also shows photographs of the interior of the brass moulding department, brass finishing department, brass polishing department, engineering and designing department, the iron foundry, the packing store, the pressroom and general coppersmithing department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 50 pages, each 250 x 185 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2005.

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

Reference: E-043-q-155

Description: Cartoon at the top right entitled `Somethink like!', shows two men in a restaurant. The caption below reads: First city clerk (after his holiday), "I got a few days' shooting, too!" Second ditto, "Good sport?" First C.C., "I believe you! Jugged five hares before breakfast, the first morning!!" Engraver's initials - C.K. Untitled cartoon at the top left shows a cab driver and his passenger. The caption below reads: Impatient passenger, "Come, I say, driver, you've no right to creep along at this slow pace. It's too bad. I'm in a hurry, and I insist upon your going faster." Careful driver, "Oh, yes! and frighten the insides out o' their vits, and be 'ad up before the `Beak' for furious drivin'. Why, you ought to be ashamed o' yourself. Drive fast! Not if I know it." Cartoon at the bottom entitled `Repose', shows a man and a woman sitting together on a cliff top. The man's upper body is obscured from view by the woman and only his legs can be clearly seen, so that it appears they are her legs. The caption reads: Yes! But we are sure that if Ellen knew what a figure Frederick made of her by sprawling about on the cliff just behind her, she wouldn't be so quiet. Engraver's initials - J.L [?] Possibly both published in Punch Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Titles Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engravings, stuck to page 275 x 215 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

Reference: E-043-q-137

Description: Cartoon at the top left entitled `Standing on his dignity', shows a Scottish immigrant bound for Canada being questioned by a shipping agent. Caption reads - Shipping agent "Are you a mechanic?'" Intending-emigrant (justly indignant) "No! I'm a MacPherson!" Engraver's initials - W.R. Cartoon at the top right entitled `The Unco' guid', shows a waiter addressing two men with packs on their backs. Caption reads - Scrupulous waiter "A what? A sandwitch! Na, na! I'll gie ye breed an' cheese, an' as much whuskey as ye can drink; but, tae mak' sangwidges on the Saubberth Day!" Engraver's initials - W.R. Cartoon at the bottom entitled `The Battue', shows a game-keeper addressing a hunting party. Caption reads - Game-keeper (to party assembled) "Now, I want a couple o' Lords, forrad - a couple o' Lords on the right, and a couple on the left! (Turning to humble commoner in knickerbockers and Zouave gaiters). You try the high stuff with the beaters, [Text missing]... our chance of a hare back". Possibly both published in Punch Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Titles; Recto - bottom left - (Top cartoon) Engraver's initials - D.M. Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engravings, stuck to page 275 x 215 mm

Date: 1961

By: A & W McCarthy (Firm); Stewart, Euan William, 1933-2018; Stone, Son and Company

Reference: Eph-A-SPORTS-GEAR-1961-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue showing fishing tackles, flies, artifical worms, , minnows, landing nets and lines, rods, waterproof clothing, guns, footballs, rifles, hunting knives, camp beds, cartridges, decoy ducks, ducks calls, pocket knives, rabbit nets, silencers, targets, torches, thermettes, etc. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 94 pages, 213 x 140 mm.

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Maclay, Adam Henry Pearson, 1873-1955 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-023934-G

Description: Rabbit hunters outside tents, circa 1910. Shows guns and rabbit carcasses. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1902

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140623-G

Description: Murray Thompson and F J (Moreoa ?) (figure in doorway unidentified) outside a wooden cottage during a rabbit hunting expedition, Murdering Beach, near Dunedin, Otago, Good Friday, 1902. Photograph taken by William Williams Source of descriptive information - Negative registers and PAColl-10129-01. Photographer identified by curator John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140564-G

Description: William Williams (with rifle) and an unidentified man, on a railway jigger, during a rabbit hunting expedition on the Otago Central Railway, circa 1900. Probably a self timed photograph taken by William Williams. Other - Note on negative bag reads "262 O Central Rlwy..." Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Relationship complexity - 1/2-140567 was taken at the same occasion. Shows the unidentified man on the jigger, holding the rifle. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [189-?]

Reference: 1/2-106869-F

Description: Photograph of an unidentified hunter with a brace of rabbits, on his horse, possibly during the 1890s. Shows the man standing next to his horse, with his dogs seated around him. Dog on far right is a miniature fox terrier. Location and photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Miniature fox terrier identified by Library patron. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

Reference: PA1-q-269-47-2

Description: Unidentified group of men around a camp-fire, circa 1900. Two rabbit carcasses hang from a log. Location unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer from display dates of PA1-q-269. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 9.5 x 13.8 cm, on album page