Women - New Zealand - Waikato Region

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2454-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Whitiora Bowling Club on the left, and the women's Whitiora Croquet Club on the right. On the left the view is across bowling greens with numbers of balls lying on the ground, looking towards a long line of bowlers, with others seated on the ground in front. Bench seats around the edge. Most of the men are wearing hats. There is a two-storeyed wooden club building in the centre of the image. The area is surrounded by hedges and trees with houses and commercial buildings visible in the background. On the right of the image is a line of 24 women standing on the croquet lawn, separated from the bowling club by hedges and shrubs. All the women are wearing hats, two holding parasols. A small single-storeyed clubroom is seen in the centre right of the image. Houses in the background, tall trees on the far right, a few bench seats around the edge of the lawn. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Whitiora Bowling Club. Hamilton N.Z. 1924; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 126.2 cm

Date: [1900-1915]

By: Kendrick, John Harold, 1865-1956; Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013

Reference: PA-Group-00679

Description: Negatives taken ca 1900-1915 by John Harold Kendrick in the Awaroa River Valley, Hauturu area, south Kawhia. They show men splitting roof shingles, splitting fence battons, fencing, using a bottle jack in the bush, clearing and bringing in land, and road building. Also a steamboat on Awaroa River, dugout canoes, Maori buildings, groups of people (Maori and pakeha), woman doing hand washing, and short horn cattle. The house built by John Kendrick and his brother Ernest, the vegetable garden, the hens, the house cow, general views of their land on the Awaroa River, and the two men at work and on horse back. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-230859-F to 1/2-230919-F John Harold Kendrick came to New Zealand from Birmingham, England, as a farm cadet. He was balloted land in the Awaroa Valley near Hauturu where he and his brother settled. He farmed there until his marriage in 1917 to Eileen Mina Austin. Quantity: 60 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose nitrate negatives Transfers: To Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8533, papers of John Kendrick. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2006. Reference number changed from PAColl-8812 to PA-Group-00679 in 2011.

Date: 07 Feb 1992

From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project

By: Boyd, Olive Margaret, 1913-2006; Pendleton, Elizabeth, 1910-1996

Reference: OHInt-0020/03

Description: Olive Boyd recalls first impression of Rotowaro; the building of Rotowaro School; number of houses in town. Elizabeth Pendleton and Olive Boyd describe facilities in houses; facilities in town; deliveries (by horse and cart); medical and dental help; food growing and preserving; Maori in area; getting fathers, brothers, husbands to work; housework; evening activities; holidays, picnics, dances, movies, entertainers; contact with local farmers; new arrivals in town, immigrants; courting. They discuss the depression (1930s) and 1951 strike; the unemployed during the depression; the local midwife, Aunty Jean; transport in 1920s; the early gramophone; cramped living conditions; the men working extra hours during World War II; little need for police; use of home brew; the carbonisation works; Country Womens Institute; contact with neighbouring communities; developing the school; different nationalities; life before electricity and radio; sewing and buying clothes; mail; muddy roads; the local church; opportunities for women; description of Huntly train; father's work. Venue - Huntly Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - 24 Kimihia Road, Huntly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004389 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 723 - also contains excerpts from tape transcripts.

Date: 23 Mar 1992

From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project

By: Bullock, Cora Maude, 1923-; Bullock, Charles, 1922-

Reference: OHInt-0020/13

Description: Charles Bullock recalls earliest memory, replacing kerosene lights with electricity; travelling around the district in the Rotowaro Band; working in the mine on the bends of the rope-roads, pit top, clipping, trucking and on face; effect on health; arguments with management; disputes over wet time; making up weight illegally in skips; management avoiding dust time; comparison of Rotowaro and Pukemiro mines; more on deputies; compares pay between mines; travelling to the mine; hours worked; compares work in mines then and now. Cora Bullock describes Rotowaro School; Pukemiro Junction; going to the technical institute in Ngaruawahia; walking long distances; hours worked at home; working at the Rotowaro Post Office; facilities at Rotowaro; scavaging bottles as a child in the Depression (1930s); going to movies in Huntly as teenager; dances; billiard room in old Rotowaro Hall and alcohol. Charles Bullock talks about sneaking alcohol into dances; the Glen Afton disaster and accidents and deaths at Rotowaro; falls in the mine; removing pillars; exemption from war service; Welsh miners singing; working in the Huntly East Mine; putting up power poles at Rotowaro and the carbonisation works. Cora Bullock discusses the flax mill at Rotowaro; raising children; the Country Women's Institute; the medical service at Rotowaro; the 1951 strike; shifting house, local Maori families. Venue - Huntly Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - 200 Hakanoa Street, Huntly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004402 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.28 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 733 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts.

Date: 12 December 1991 - 12 Dec 1991

From: Labour Movement Oral History Project

By: Westbrooke, Herbert G, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0056/16

Description: H G (Snow) Westbrooke born St Helens, Auckland. Recalls pre-school years at Public Works Camp north of Dargaville. Describes working life - Fletcher Challenge; Compulsory Training; Labour Youth League, with reference to Warren Freer MP, Chairman; Timber Mill contracting at Warkworth; marriage; work at Maraeti No 2 Dam and Mangakino village; politics; Women's section of New Zealand Labour Party - fundraising; Carpenters' Union; Hydro Workers Union; Pulp and Paper Workers' Union - negotiating with State Services Commission - reference to negotiating with management for scheme for promotion by merit; Trade Union Education Association (TUEA) - introduced by Labour and remarks on how it has improved the negotiating skills of the Unionists. Recalls Federation of Labour Conferences. Mentions Jim Knox and Ken Douglas and his association with Socialist Unity Party (SUP). Gives details of visit to Russia re Pulp and Paper Conference at Tashkent - representing Australasia - reference to visiting Halls of Achievement where Godfrey Bowen was mentioned. Gives views on Rogernomics. Comments on the position of the Trade Unions and the New Zealand Labour Party. Considers that 'The Backbone Club was a destructive organisation'. Mentions Norman Kirk, Ruth Dyson, Rex Jones, Jim Anderton and Margaret Wilson. Reference to Voluntary Unionism. Venue - Mangakino Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004269-004270 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0913.

Date: 11 January 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000828-F

Description: World War 2 Maori reinforcements about to leave Rotorua railway station, January, 1944. A man and a woman hold hands in the foreground. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "It is not easy to say goodbye to friends." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-05

Description: Pat Wade Post Mistress at Waimihia Post Office. Photographed by Fiona Clark on the 29th of January, 1988 Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print

Date: March 1907

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-229-13-3

Description: Woman sitting on the grass beside Lake Taupo and the Waikato River, taken March 1907 by Harold Stevens Hislop. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Lake Taupo and Waikato River; Album page - beneath image - March 1907 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on album page. Physical Description: Platinum photograph 9.3 x 11.8 cm

Date: 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-02

Description: Reina Lobb, former Post Mistress and General Store keeper, Oparau. Behind Reina Lobb can be seen the general store building which was her home in 1988. Photographed by Fiona Clark on the 2nd of February, 1988 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print

Date: 1885

From: Long album 2

Reference: PA1-q-146-29

Description: Women standing beside a raupo pataka holding a bunch of flowers. Photographed by Alfred Burton in 1885. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 3787-Hinepoto-at Ngongo-Roto Aira-King Country. Burton Bros. Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albuman print 20 x 15 cm, mounted on album page

Date: [188-?]

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096219-G

Description: Seven unidentified women from Gerald Butler Beere's family, under a kowhai tree, at Waimata. Photograph taken in the 1880s by Gerald's brother Daniel Manders Beere. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print, and in comparison with 1/2-096223 which includes some of the same women. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-06

Description: Post Mistress Atiria Takiari standing on the porch of the Mahoenui Post Office. Photographed by Fiona Clark on the 3rd of February, 1988 Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print

Date: [ca 1914]

From: Macpherson, Beverley :Photographs relating to the McCracken family

Reference: PAColl-8577-1-038

Description: Group of people photographed seated on the ground. Groups of flax plants are behind them, and coastal plants in the foreground. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1914. Though the date of "about 1905" is inscribed on the back of the orignal mount, the clothes of the women are the every day wear of 1913 - 1918. I have opted for a pre World War One date (ie the summer of 1914) because two of the women are wearing the very large hats that, generically, belong to the period 1908-1915. On the other hand it may be later. One of the men is wearing a military hat, but then he may be member of the local volunteers. Inscriptions: Verso - McCracken photo at Ruspuke about 1905 nr Raglan Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, 15.7 x 11.2 cm on cardboard mount

Date: 3 February 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-01

Description: Margaret Karl and Linnete Steele at Ohaupo Post office, two days before its closure, photographed by Fiona Clark on 3 February 1988. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye destruction print 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Date: 13 Jan 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000865-F

Description: Unidentified workers from a World War 2 munitions factory during their meal break. Shows two Maori women dining at a table in the recreation centre restaurant in Hamilton, 13 January 1944. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Caption - Photographer's caption reads: "Another angle of workers in the Recreation Centre restaurant. The meals are substantial and the charges reasonable." Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 20865 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1914]

From: Macpherson, Beverley :Photographs relating to the McCracken family

Reference: PAColl-8577-1-039

Description: Group of people photographed standing and seated on rocks in front of the mouth of a cave, Ruapuke Beach, Waikato, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1914. Inscriptions: Verso - Miss C McCracken Te Mata Raglan. At the mouth of the cave on Ruapuke Beach after lunch. Holiday shore scene section. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, 15.7 x 11.2 cm on cardboard mount

Date: Jun - Aug 1993

By: Waihi Women's Suffrage Centennial Committee; MacBeth, Rose, active 1993

Reference: OHColl-0067

Description: Accompanying material - Documentation including a copy of published book `Waihi Women'. This publication is in the back file of the project. Sponsored by - Waihi Women's Suffrage Centennial Committee 1993 Quantity: 99 C90 cassette(s) each cassette contains multiple interviews (majority). 19 videocassette(s) each cassette contains multiple interviews (majority). 98 transcript(s). 100 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available.