Timber camps

Date: 1921-1924

From: Hume, Keith Hamilton, fl 1974-1982 :Albums featuring Ohura and Rotoiti and timbermill

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: PA1-o-232

Description: Views of the timber industry around Lake Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty Region; Includes scenes of the Rotoiti Timber Co.; timber transportation at Mourea (spelt Morea in album), and Lake Rotoiti; the Ohau Channel; Okataina (spelt Okatina in album); and Ngongotaha. Taken in the 1920s by John Martyn Hume and a staff photographer of the Auckland Weekly News. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18 x 30 cm

Date: [ca 1920-1945]

Reference: PAColl-6962

Description: 15 images including: three of young men practising life saving skills in the sea with a rope on a winch; two of girl guides helping at a kindergarten; two of East Street, Ashburton showing the different businesses parked cars and trees opposite; a car broken down in the middle of a ford; flooding on the road to the Harihari Hotel, with cattle being driven along it; a timber camp of five tents in the bush; a house at Kennedy's Bush on Banks Peninsula ca 1920; decorated boats on the Avon River with crowds on the banks watching and Ward & Co factory in the background; Cashel Street ca 1920 busy with trafic and pedestrians; and the Free Lance offices on The Terrace, Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059480 to 059494 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s) film. 12 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 16 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: O'Brien, Brian Anthony, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0159/01

Description: Brian O'Brien was born in Christchurch in 1944 and grew up there. Describes a traditional Catholic upbringing including attitudes to discipline, religion, alcohol, women and sex. Began public service career in 1963 as a clerk with NZ Electricity Department. Joined Forest Service as a clerk in 1966. Remained in administrative positions in various district and conservancy offices until taking voluntary severance from NZ Forest Service in 1987. Prior to leaving Forest Service was Assistant Conservator of Forests (Administration), NZ Forest Service, Palmerston North. Comments on the closeness of forestry villages and the fairly closed world that they represented. Talks about racial integration and politics in the Forestry Service. Mentions the McLean Report (by Ian McLean), 1978 and its proposals for the Service. Describes the levels of administration (Forest rangers; Conservancy/district; Headquarters) and relationship between conservancies and Head Office. Talks about conservators' work. Describes the expectation that the Forest Service would employ the unemployed. Comments on the role of the Forest Service in the community particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. Gives views on Ministers of Forestry including Venn Young and Koro Wetere. Describes industrial relations. Outlines his own career. Backgrounds events leading to the end of the Forestry Service and the beginning of the Forestry Corporation. Talks about the Gibbs Report (Alan Gibbs) and Andy Kirkland. Comments on the trauma of change for employees and families when the Forestry Service became a state owned enterprise. Accompanying material - Bound in with the abstact - Photo of Brian O'Brien in 1988 and photo of Nancy and Brian O'Brien about 1969; Brian O'Brien's curriculum vitae; `Evening standard' article 31 Mar 1987(?) `Conservator blasts switchover fiasco'; O'Brien family tree Venue - Palmerston North : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mr O'Brien's home at Palmerston North Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001898; OHC-001899; OHC-001900; OHC-001901 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 298. Search dates: 1944 - 1988

Date: 6 Dec 1988 - 06 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Dowdney, Trevor Heath, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0159/09

Description: Trevor Dowdney was born in Rotorua in 1932. Gives details of his family background and the family's interest in the outdoors, particularly hunting and fishing. Describes attending Whakarewarewa Native School and recalls good race relations. Recalls going to Rotorua Boys High and mentions some teachers. Talks about joining the Forest Service as a junior labourer and being in the timber cruising party from 1950-1955. Describes its work measuring and recording all the millable (mostly native) trees. Recalls being on a job for up to four months and staying at the sawmill or at a bush camp. Comments on islolated conditions and talks about the staff. Recalls magnificent totara and rimu in Western Bay, Taupo. Notes the Forest Service awareness of Maori land. Describes going on a working holiday to England from 1956-1959. Talks about his wife who came out from England with him. Describes becoming a leading hand with the Forest Service in Rotorua from 1959 to 1965. Describes the attributes of a good bushman and the steps in tree felling. Talks about becoming an office worker setting silviculture and planting targets. Recalls the office's organisation and staff. Describes going to a Head Office job in Wellington as Organisation and Method Officer. Comments on the job, city life and the relationship between Head Office and the conservancies. Talks about working overseas from 1972-1973 and returning to a clerical job in Rotorua. Describes working as the operator of the Whakarewarewa and Kaingaroa weighbridges. Comments on bureaucracy. Talks about the effects of corporatisation and how it was achieved. Describes working on contract with his son since corporatisation. Compares being a free enterprise operator with being a public servant. Venue - Rotorua : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Dowdney's home at Rotorua Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001905; OHC-001906; OHC-001907 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 300. Search dates: 1932 - 1988

Date: 7 Dec 1988 - 07 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Viles, David Gordon Kenneth, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0159/08

Description: David Viles was born in Feilding in 1949. Talks about growing up on a small farm and being the second of six children. Notes that his father also did labouring work. Comments on his mother's important role within the family. Talks about living conditions. Describes attending Feilding Agricultural High School and winning a scholarship to go to Forestry School at the University of Canterbury. Recalls lecturers and life at Forestry School. Comments on the rivalry between foresters and rangers and the problem of two separate training programmes streaming into one occupational group. Describes a strong camaraderie among the labour workforce in the Forest Service in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Talks about the forest camps, communal living in single men's huts and the effect of the PEP programme on these camps. Recalls being a forester at Ashley Forest and his work advising on planting, pruning and thinning. Comments on the role of the regional Conservator, the lack of local flexibility in terms of decision-making and the bureaucracy of Head Office. Notes that Andy Kirkland was beginning to make changes, including implementing the amalgamation of foresters and rangers, when corporatisation happened. Explains some of the reasons for corporatisation including the demand from Treasury for greater efficiency and the pressure from environmentalists opposing multiple use of forests. Describes becoming District Forester at Masterton where the emphasis was on recreational use of forests and soil protection of native forests. Talks about shifting to Golden Downs, a large exotic forest, before becoming Principal Forester at Head Office. Mentions Director General Mick O'Neill and Ministers of Forestry including Colin Moyle, Venn Young, Jonathan Elworthy and Koro Wetere. Comments on a plan to amalgamate the Forest Service and the Department of Lands and Survey and the potenital clash between the preservation oriented Lands and Survey and the multiple use-oriented Forest Service. Talks about his current position as South Island Manager of Timberlands. Venue - Christchurch : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mair Astley House, Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001895; OHC-001896; OHC-001897 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 297. Search dates: 1949 - 1988

Date: 17 Jun 1992

From: Great Barrier Island Oral History Project

By: Petrie, Jim, 1912-

Reference: OHInt-0104-66

Description: Jim Petrie born 1912 and lived in Christchurch until aged 18, when father moved to Great Barrier Island and Jim went to help on the farm. Talks about the timber mill at Whangaparapara. Refers to George Murray who was responsible for dams and timber. Mentions involvement in survey done by Kauri Timber Company on what timber left on GBI. Refers to use of Teatree (Manuka). Other topics include: description of camps; accidents; Claris airfield; involvement in union; boat day; use of kerosene lamps; fishing; use of pianola and accordion for music; school; bird life. Reference made to Parkinsons disease. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Helen Jordan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012442-012443 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4242. Search dates: 1912 - 1992

Date: ca 1896

From: Hewitt, G R V: Sealy album and two loose prints

Reference: PAColl-0709-1

Description: Photographs of five ships moored in a storm lashed harbour with the inscription on the back "Emma, with mother's love July 1896"; and a timber camp with a man outside his tent with a kettle and another man smoking a pipe. Axes, saws and a cart lie around the camp. Photographer(s) unidentified. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1860s-1880s]

Reference: PAColl-D-0665

Description: View of an unidentified timber camp. There is a large tent in foreground on the right with a woman standing at the doorway and washing hanging on a line. Two men are standing on the road looking towards the photographer. The camp is sited in a densely forested area, possibly in North Island. Name of photographer and date are unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) hand-coloured. Physical Description: 380 x 555 mm

Date: 1903

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-009892-G

Description: Timber workers camp, 1903, probably in the Taranaki region. Photograph taken by James McAllister. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6743

Description: 24 images including: men working on a large tree (possibly kauri) in the bush; a man getting supplies from a store tent on stilts; men relaxing outside their tents; four men outside another tent with washing hanging up; a view of the four tents in a site from above; one man giving another a hair cut; group of men doing a haka on a tree trunk; two traction-engines hauling equipment and supplies; and a shack in partially cleared bush with a man, a woman and a child standing outside it. Possibly taken near Haast. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028761 to 028766, 029527, and 029761 to 029777 Quantity: 24 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

By: Preston, Alan, 1941-

Reference: PAColl-3754

Description: Arrangement: 1/2-154580-F and 1/2-154581-F Quantity: 2 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: [ca 1925]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1089-1/2-b-F

Description: Group of women and children alongside Climax locomotive 1650, at No 9 timber camp, Ongarue. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1925. Dated from assesment of the women's dresses. This image has been reproduced in three publications (as at February 2003): in "The era of the bush tram in New Zealand" by Paul Mahoney (1998, p 51); in "Rails through the bush" by Bob Stott (1973); and "The bush tram to the mill\" by Bob Stott (1981, p 51). The information given in Paul Mahoney's book suggests that this is a picnic party (as given in a pencilled inscription beneath the original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 47 (PA1-q-102)); but Bob Stott suggests this conveyance was "used to bring bush camp families out to the relative civilisation of the mill settlement and the like". Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - A picnic party. No 9 Camp. Ongarue Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1885

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-1-023

Description: A tented pit-sawing site in tall forest, with a hut to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 118 x 69 mm

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

From: Chapman Taylor, Marion Hurst, 1893-1969 :Photographs of pa sites in New Plymouth, a carved housed at Karatia, Akatarawa, old houses and the Rimutakas

By: Chapman-Taylor, James Walter, 1878-1958

Reference: PA7-57-19

Description: Dwelling in the vicinity of Campbell's Mill, Akatarawa. Photograph taken by James Walter Chapman-Taylor. Other Titles - Forest Fading Inscriptions: Mat recto - bottom left - Forest Fading At Campbells Mill Akatarawa; Mat recto - bottom right - J W Chapman-Taylor ARPS Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1918]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-007858-G

Description: Timber camp among Kauri trees at Campbells Bush, Totara North, Northland. Photograph taken circa 1918 by Northwood brothers. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date of photograph estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: PA1-o-395-05

Description: Group outside a timber camp hut, circa 1900. Shows two women peeling potatoes, a man, a dog and chickens. Photograph taken by the Northwood Brothers. This image is reversed from the original Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1910s

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-004958-G

Description: Group of men standing outside a wooden building at a timber camp north of Auckland, probably in the Northland Region. There is a timber railway line in the foreground. Photographed circa 1910s, probably by Arthur Northwood. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: ca 1910s

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-004889-G

Description: Two men and a horse standing in front of a wooden hut at a timber camp at North Auckland. The roof of the hut is thatched and there is smoke coming from the chimney. Photographed circa 1910s, probably by Arthur James Northwood. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

Reference: 1/1-016720-G

Description: Timber workers, circa 1905. Photograph taken by the Tesla Studio. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1909

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0380-1/2-G

Description: A timber camp near Horopito surrounded by bush, with a man standing in front of a bush whare. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1909. An original print of this image is in Godber Album at Pa1-q-103 (Vol 110, p 24). Dated from the album. Other Titles - The whare in the bush. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches