Kauri gum

Date: 1996-1997

By: Mangawhai Historical Society

Reference: OHColl-0466

Description: Interviews are with descendants of early Pakeha settlers in the Mangawhai area. Squatters, European traders and spar cutters began arriving in Mangawhai in the 1830s followed by boatbuilders in the 1850s. The timber industry soon became established as the hinterland was plentiful with kauri and logs were brought down the river and rafted up before being towed down to the sawmills in Auckland. The area was rich in kauri gum and by the late nineteenth century Mangawhai was a thriving community supported by timber and gum. When the railway reached Kaiwaka in 1913, the importance of Mangawhai as a port began to diminish. Gumlands gave way to farmland and most residents now earn their living by farming. Interviews Bill Logue, Doris Ross, Phyllis Wharfe, Alice Wintle, Albert Wood and Josephine Worsfold. Interviewer(s) - Bev Ross Arrangement: Recordings: OHC-013136 - OHC-013149 Tape numbers - OHC-013136 - OHC-013149 Quantity: 14 C60 cassette(s). 6 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available - folders with agreement forms, personal information forms, family trees, etc., OHA-4597 - OHA-4602. Processing information: Interviews not yet described

Date: 1894-1899

By: Motherwell family

Reference: MS-Papers-1242

Description: Letters from John and William Motherwell, Auckland, Wellington, Otago and Victoria to their sister, Miss M A Motherwell in Scotland. Describe rural life in New Zealand and Victoria especially gumdiggers' camp at Whareora and New Zealand bird life Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1881

From: John Martin, Solicitors of Edinburgh : New Zealand letters

Reference: MS-Papers-6509-01

Description: Gum to be shipped from Auckland on the `Halcione'. Also included is a bill of lading. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1901-1927

By: McLeod, Hector Norman, 1872-

Reference: MS-Papers-0154

Description: Papers deal with Hector McLeod Ltd (estate agents and valuers) re property transactions in Wellington; Wellington Brick Company; New Zealand Peat Oils Ltd; Southland Oils Extraction Syndicate; Anderson's Improved Cinematograph; Kino Ltd; and other business ventures; religious issues including Bible in State Schools League; local body affairs in Miramar, Wellington Some papers relate to his brother, Malcolm Daniel McLeod. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 45 folder(s) 1 volume. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs transferred 10 Oct 1960; postcards 2005 - To Ephemera Collection - Map of Miramar with advertising, 1911 - To Cartographic Collection - 26 manuscript maps (MapColl-Collection-McLeod).

Date: 1890-1915

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 94-106-33/14

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (31 pages).

Date: 1917-1922

From: McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1902-1927 : Business papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0154-12

Description: Reports on kauri peat - analysis and estimate of its potential; notes on peat areas visited; notes on Peatol No 1 Syndicate; newpaper article re kauri gum industry Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1915

By: Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942

Reference: PA1-o-402

Description: Volume 1 of a two volume record of New Zealand exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held at San Francisco in 1915. Most of the photographs were taken by Leslie Hinge. Photographs include exterior and interior views of the New Zealand pavilion, views from the pavilion by day and by night, and exterior views of pavilions from Australia, Cuba, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, France, Norway and Canada. Interior views in the New Zealand pavilions include a fernery; the reading room; exhibits of wool samples and woollen fabrics; a display of leather boots and saddlery; views of three different collections of kauri gum samples (belonging to J H McCarroll, Colonel G W S Patterson, and Arthur H Cranwell); a cabinet of stuffed kiwis; stuffed heads of a boar, a fallow deer and a red deer; and outdoor closeup views of Corriedale sheep, exhibited by C H Ensor. One photograph shows the United States Ex-President, William Howard Taft and his entourage visiting the New Zealand pavilion, and another shows a group of seven press delegates. Other Titles - New Zealand exhibits at Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black leather cover, entitled `New Zealand exhibits at Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Album No. 1' (in gold lettering); 26 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by the Tourist and Publicity Department in 1967

Date: 1960

By: Meiklejohn, Leslie Douglass, 1880-1960

Reference: Micro-MS-0407

Description: Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 60 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: [1900s-1910s]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-395

Description: Photographs taken in the Northland Region by the Northwood Brothers, circa 1900s and 1910s. The first group show aspects of the timber industry, including tree felling, a cross-cut saw, bullock teams pulling huge logs, a timber camp, and two women peeling potatoes outside a hut. One image shows a group of Maori. It shows two women, a young man, and six children with a makeshift ten of blankets draped over wooden poles. Two buckets and a kete are in the foreground, and in the background an open umbrella shading a person (baby?) lying on the ground wrapped in a blanket. The final sequence are all related to the kauri gum industry. Scenes include a group of men digging for kauri gum with three men in suits watching; three Maori men scraping and sorting the gum; a group of kauri gum workers at their camp with two men in the foreground scraping huge pieces of gum; and a bullock team pulling a wagon laden with kauri gum through a ford. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, black border of Greek key design; 24.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 1893

By: Rawnsley, Samuel, active 1893

Reference: MS-Papers-0629

Description: Agreement written in English and Maori leasing the Kauri gum rights from the Ureroiroi tribe, Wairua Falls, Northland Language - Agreement written in English and Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1915

By: Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942

Reference: PA1-o-403

Description: Volume 2 of a two volume record of New Zealand exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Most of the photographs were taken by Leslie Hinge. Photographs include various `streets' inside the New Zealand pavilion, and closer views of some of the exhibition stands, which cover aspects of New Zealand agriculture (in the Palace of Agriculture, and the New Zealand Regrigerated Meat industry section). A stuffed moa, and stuffed heads of various deer; wool samples, canned foods, flax industry, kauri gum, cereals, lace, tallow, rope and binder twine, are all exhibited by a range of producers. The last section shows displays of marine photographs taken by Auckland photographers H. Winkelman and J H Kinnear, and examples of portraits taken by Auckland photographer H. Schmidt. Other Titles - New Zealand exhibits at Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black leather cover, entitled `New Zealand exhibits at Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Album No. 2' (in gold lettering); 26 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by the Tourist and Publicity Department in 1967.

Date: 1860 - 1915

Reference: MapColl-832.11gf/1860-1972 (1972)/Acc.35846

Description: Map of the Kaipara Harbour land area showing pioneering industries from 1860-1915, including timber and flax mills, gum, sheep, cattle, stock fattening, dairying, winemaking, bootmaking, honey, wheat, maize, lime, brickworks, pottery, flour, canning, saddlery, turkeys, oysters, fish, leadlight windows. Shows Otamatea County Boundary, main settlements and features (approxiamtely 32) and Maori settlements (5). Three inserts list the major timber mills, the vegetation (light or heavy bush) and the major sources of income for the first half of the century (timber, gum, flax, sheep, stock fattening). Below map sources are listed. Descriptive text accompanies parts of the map. Traced over Cadastral maps - Ruawai (N27) and Manungaturoto (N28). Map is signed A.P.B.W. (Aug 1972). Other Titles - fifty Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Felt tip pen on tracing paper, hand coloured, scale [ca. 1:63 360], 51 x 76 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Sutch, William Ball, 1907-1975. Papers (Exact reference unknown).

Date: 29 Apr, 6 May 2009 - 29 Apr 2009 - 06 May 2009

From: Honouring seniors oral history project

By: Gunson, Kenneth Desmond, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0979-04

Description: Interview with Kenneth (Ken) Desmond Gunson, born in Purewa, Northland in 1926. Describes his early childhood, as the youngest of five children raised on a small farm adjacent to gumfields, by a father who was a grader driver for Whangarei County Council, and a mother who kept large gardens and maintained the family's self-sufficiency. Talks about his dislike of school, which he left at 14, and the variety of work he did from childhood, including cutting firewood, working as a farrier, blacksmith, grader driver, and sawmill worker. Talks about hunting for birds, pigs, rabbits and hares. Tells of meeting his wife at a dance in Frankton. Descibes his main job, working on county roads as a grader driver which included roadmaking and making airstrips in isolated back country of the district. Talks about his workmates, and their recreations: dancing, going to the pictures, and various sports. Discusses the family backgrounds of both parents, and their life stories. Talks about Maori history of the district, and lists names of pakeha families who settled there. Interviewer(s) - Patricia Cutforth Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001253 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 7 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 1 interview(s) over 2 days. 1.43 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001262, OHA-7482. Digital photograph of Ken Gunson and family (2009). Scanned B&W or sepia photographs of: Lizzie cars gone to the beach; Ken and older brother ploughing for potatoes (1930); Gunson kids off to school on horseback (1934); Grace and Ken Gunson (1941); Ken Gunson (1949); Ken Gunson and new Whangarei District Council Cat grader (2 photos, 1965). Scanned colour photographs of: Ken Gunson - farrier demonstration (1974); Ken Gunson (2004) Search dates: 1926 - 2009

Date: 7 May 1996 - 07 May 1996

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part two

By: Manukau, Mohi William, 1912-2008

Reference: OHInt-0633/3

Description: Mohi Manukau was born in 1912 between Ruawai and Matakohe. Talks about being a Ratana Apostle (Minister) and mentions that his grandfather Maurice Rogan built the local Ratana church with Mr Stirling. Mentions his grandfather was a gumdigger. Discusses the carting of gum by bullock team to Joe Stirling's store at Matakohe. Discusses how young boys were selected to be trained in Maori lore. Describes the special building in which they were given this training. Explains that the Kaipara area is divided in two with the northern (Poutu) half connected to Te Uraohau and the South Head area connected to Te Waiahua. Mentions the Aotea Block. Discusses the meaning of Ngati Whatua and briefly gives the origins of land ownership disputes. Describes early Maori gardens and the growing of kumara. Mentions the eating of kiore (rat), frogs, snails and eels. Comments on Maori housing and the distance from secondary schooling. Recalls becoming an overseer with Public Works and involvement in World War I rehabilitation land and housing. Describes joining the 24th Battalion in World War II, planting the Army garden at Maunu and being sent to be an overseer on Public Works roads. Talks about going to the Kaiapara Dairy Factory in 1948, settling at Haranui and the gradual improvement of the marae there. Talks about recent intermarriage between Kakanui and Haranui. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3319.

Date: Aug 1973 - 01 Aug 1973

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Gasparich, Joseph George, 1890-1985

Reference: OHInt-0105-04

Description: Joe Gasparich recalls his memories of Northern Wairoa Venue - Napier Interviewer(s) - Pamela Strange Venue - Napier Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000369B; OHC-000370A; OHC-000371A Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1890 - 1973

Date: Jan 1969 - 01 Jan 1969

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Tolley, Leon, active 1950s-1969

Reference: OHInt-0105-54

Description: Leon Tolley, Waipoua Forest Officer in Charge talking about Nick Yakas as he knew him in the 1950s. Interviewer(s) - Peter Mathews Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000380B Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: Jan 1979 - 01 Jan 1979

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Lulich, Nikola, 1896-1981

Reference: OHInt-0105-13

Description: Nickola Lulich describes his experiences in the Austrian Army during World War I, information on the two Dargaville Yugoslav clubs, gum digging at Aranga. Interviewer(s) - Peter Mathews Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000367B; OHC-000386B; OHC-000379A Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1896 - 1979

Date: 1800 - 1899

By: Pacific Islands Company

Reference: Eph-B-SHIP-1800s

Description: Includes: Undated: Invoice of ....... Kauri gum shipped per S.S. ... to ..... for account and risk of Messrs .... by the undersigned [Black invoice sheet. 1800s? Ex Webster Collection] 1803: Great Britain. Assistant Registrar General of Shipping :An account of the number of ships, their tonnage and men, that entered inwards and cleared outwards in Great Britain, to or from the Greenland and the Southern whale fisheries, ... [Ex Webster Collection, no. 1480] 1863: P Henderson & Co's Line of packets to New Zealand, to sail early in March from Glasgow to Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. ... the splendid Clyde-built iron clipper ship "Wave Queen"... 27 January 1863 [Photographic copy from unknown publication. Ex Webster Collection no. 2566/3] Patrick Henderson Shipping Company: Patrick Henderson & Co.'s regular line of packet ships to New Zealand, 27 West George Street, Glasgow, 3 Feby 1863. In reply to your letter of ... we beg to inform you that we intend to despatch the "Wave Queen", 850 tons register ... from Glasgow for Otago NZ about the beginning of March 1863 ... [1863. Ex Webster Collection, no. 2566/3] 1883: Ship "Oxford" (Anchored), Penarth Roads, Cardiff, 14 February 1883. [Note of thanks accompanying monetary gift to crew from passengers] ca 1897?: Pacific Islands Company Ltd. Notes on Clipperton Island [Single sheet, for the use of ships visiting. ca 1897] 1898: New Zealand Shipping Company :The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited monthly service. Direct line of mail steamers between London and New Zealand ... taking passengers for all New Zealand ports. [1898] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, letterpress, on pamphlets, booklets and fliers, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: [ca 1895-1920]

By: Jones, B (Mrs), active 1962?; Cowdell, Joseph Tuffley, -1907

Reference: PAColl-3393

Description: Photograph of two men sorting kauri gum in a shed one sitting on a packing case with Poroli written on it. Photographer unidentified. Photograph of three bullock teams of fourteen to sixteen bullocks pulling loads of dressed timber with a man on top of each load near Whangarei; and the river near Whangarei Falls both taken by Cowdell. Postcards of two men on horseback with four work horses in a field of harvested oats near Blenheim; and a cart at the summit of Otira Gorge. Postcards of logs at the top of Wairua Falls and a view of Napier from the hill Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs B Jones, 1962

Date: 1947

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091214-F

Description: Sutich brothers screening gum chips using a sieve at Te Kopuru. Two men hold the sieve while the other pours the chips through it to remove foreign matter. Photographed by Robert E Wells in April or May 1947. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.5 x 4.5 inches