Earthquakes - New Zealand - Tasman Region

Date: [ca 1929]

Reference: PAColl-6887

Description: 16 views of Wellington and Murchison including: Oriental Bay from the west and the east; a park on Oriental Bay looking towards the harbour with a family with a pram pic-nicking; two of J O Smith's gentleman's outfitters on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street, one with the Government Buildings in the background and one taken from them; the Carillon from Buckle Street; the Hikitia lifting a buoy in Wellington Harbour; Seatoun taken from the north; the steamer Cowan (location unknown); three men, one in a uniform, standing next to a car with Newman Bros Ltd on the windscreen; a display for visiting dignitaries in the form of a human Union Jack possibly in Athletic Park for the Duke of York's visit; the Public Library building on Mercer Street with the Technical College and the Town Hall in the background and Wakefield Street to the right; Willis Street looking south; and three showing the damage after the 1929 earthquake to H J Hodgson & Co General Merchants and Ross's Hotel in Murchison and Nelson Boys' College. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044200 to 044215 Quantity: 16 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 19 Jun 1929-18 Jun 1999

By: Blundell, Henry Neil, 1909-2002

Reference: MS-Group-1426

Description: Includes newspaper clippings relating to Blundell's career as a reporter for the Evening Post,issues of the `Red worker'and the `Printers bulletin', reports, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to Blundell's coverage of the Murchison earthquake. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donated to the Wairarapa Archive, then transferred to Alexander Turnbull Library. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts on the 31 August 2005 ; material transferred to Photographic Archive from Manuscripts - To Photographic Archive - 28 black and white photographs of the Murchison earthquake (PAColl-8695).

Date: 1933-1934

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 : Papers

Reference: MSX-4636

Description: Paper presented by Furkert to the Institution of Civil Engineers on the effects of the Murchison and Napier earthquakes on engineering structures in both regions. The volume also includes `The Influence of earthquakes on structural design' by Herbert Cecil Edgar Cherry and `The Design of an earthquake-resisting structure: the Domionion Museum, Wellington, NZ, by John James Booth. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [ca 17 June 1929]

From: Scott, Ruth Copland, 1916- :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9195

Description: Photograph of rubble from the collapsed tower of Nelson College, following the Murchison earthquake, taken ca 17 June 1929 probably by Frederick Nelson Jones Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Portion of Nelson College after Earthquake on 17th. June, 1929, at 10.20a.m. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) (postcard). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.1 x 8.9 cm Transfers: From Book Collections - See also Manuscripts Section.

Date: 1929-1931

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes

Reference: PA1-q-768

Description: Damage to buildings, roads, rivers and landscapes resulting from the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 23 Oct 1931-26 Apr 1932

By: Hunter, David, active 1900-1932

Reference: MS-Group-1191

Description: Journal kept by Hunter while travelling from England to New Zealand on the `Rangitata' and his return to England on the `Makura' to Australia and the Orsova' from Sydney from 23 Oct 1931 to 26 Apr 1932. He travelled with Ena Hunter. He describes their preparations, embarkation at Southampton, the other passengers, food (including menus), sea sickness, entertainments, the comforts and otherwise of the ship, his cabin, their passage through the Panama Canal and Armstice Day. They disembarked at Wellington 24 Nov 1931, and left for Australia on the `Makura' 7 Mar 1932, and for England on the `Orsova' from Sydney, 13 Mar 1932. In New Zealand Hunter spent time in Wellington, visiting the Alexander Turnbull Library, describing the work of the League of Nations Union in Wellington, visits Christchurch, the West Coast and Nelson where he spent some time, Wanganui, the Waitomo Caves, Rotorua and Auckland and back through Taranaki where he climbed Mt Egmont; he visited farms and factories, observed the opening of Parliament (24 Feb 1932) and visited the Gear Freezing and Meat Preservation Company. He attended many church services in various churches including the Congregational, Church of Christ and Presbyterian churches. Folowing his and Ena's departure for Sydney he describes the new Sydney harbour bridge, their visit to Tasmania and the House of Commons in Hobart, visiting to Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Colombo, the Suez Canal, Naples and Gibraltar, and an ANZAC commemoration service he declined to attend. The journal is illustrated and includes a water colour of the `Rangitata', newspaper clippings of portraits of various New Zealanders; and a copy of a letter from the Turnbull to the donor (1986). Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and microfilm

Date: 27 Jun 1929

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 : Reports and newspaper clippings

Reference: MSI-Papers-7325

Description: An Evacuated town; Murchison as it stands today (Evening post, 27 Jun 1929) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

From: Allan, Ruth Mary (Fletcher), d 1958 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0205-064

Description: Box containing odd notes. Includes notes on schools, William Fox biographical notes, floods, earthquakes, Pakawau coal etc. Mostly from the `Examiner' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1940-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-126

Description: Photographs related to geography and geology, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1940 and 2000. Images related to geology are arranged alphabetically from C to LA. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: [ca 1923-1942]

From: Comrie, William James (Very Rev), 1860-1945 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0011-17A

Description: Topics include: Gold from `Niagara'; Roads, etc mainly Wellington; Railway from Pokeno to Paeroa, 1937; Towns and roads, etc; Murchison earthquake, 1929; Loss of `Manuka', and `Tahiti' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1929

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-10049-G

Date: 1929

By: Blundell, Henry Neil, 1909-2002

Reference: PAColl-8695

Description: Photographs of damage caused by the 1929 Murchison earthquake. Includes images of refugees and a refugee camp, slips, and damage caused to roads and buildings. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Accompanying material - Part of The Press newspaper, dated 18 June 1999, including an article and photograph of Neil Blundell Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1426 : Blundell, Henry Neil, 1909-2002 : Papers.

Date: 1929

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: PAColl-3051-1-02

Description: Fissure in the road approaching the Matakitaki Bridge in Murchison, after the 1929 earthquake. Photograph taken in 1929 by Frederick Nelson Jones. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - After the quake at Murchison Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.5 x 21.8 cm

Date: [192-?]

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8815

Description: Photographs of the aftermath of the Murchison Earthquake in 1929, and views of Wellington in the 1920s, including a photograph of Hotel Cecil, taken by Frederick William Furkert. Arrangement: Original order maintained as much as possible. Negatives at 1/2-230839-F and 1/2-230840-F Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: To Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8559 : Correspondence from Sir Charles Fergusson (MS-Papers-8559).

Date: 10 Dec 1843

By: Shepherd, Frances, 1813?-

Reference: MS-Papers-8817

Description: Letter written by Mrs Shepherd from Beuaha Valley, Motueka District to her parents in London. Shepherd describes in brief detail her voyage to Nelson which lasted 18 weeks aboard the New Zealand Company vessel, `Indus'; landscape and flora; wildlife, particually birdlife; local Maori and colonial living. Further she details the price of commodities and their availablity; the Great March Comet of 1843 and the June earthquake of the same year. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Transcribed typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms R Aldridge, Hampshire, England, 2007

Date: 1929. 1931

From: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949 :Photographs of Hydro schemes and the Murchison and Hawke's Bay earthquakes

Reference: PAColl-7502-2

Description: Views of damage to landscape, roads, rivers, and buildings as a result of the Murchison earthquake of 1929. The rest are mainly of damage to buildings as a result of the Hawke's Bay Earthquake of 1931 Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Masters, Charles Reuben George, 1906-1989; Masters, Kathleen Mary, 1914-1986

Reference: OHInt-0053/16

Description: George Masters was born in Constable in Great Britain in 1906. Recalls his family's emigration to New Zealand in 1911 and settling in Nelson in 1915. Describes F.G. (Soss) Gibbs, headmaster of Nelson College for Boys. Comments on the youth activities of various churches and his family's social position in Nelson. After being a pupil teacher at Nelson Central School for Boys, he attended Teachers College in Christchurch and studied physical education at Dunedin Training College. Describes his student days. Recalls teaching at the Railways Public Works Camp at Gowan Bridge and the Resolution Bay Household School, Murchison and Collingwood. Describes his involvement in civil defence during World War II including taking Air Force cadets as he had an aviation licence. Talks about alternative lifestyle people and hippies in the Collingwood area other changes in the makeup of the population of Collingwood. Comments on sex education. Describes services to the community including work as an ambulance driver, member of the Education Board and Treasurer of the school committee. Kathleen Masters was born in Christchurch in 1915. Recalls her family background and childhood in Christchurch and the social pressures that she felt as a young woman there. Talks about being `finished off' at Rangiruru College. Describes the death of her first husband in Crete in 1940 and staying with her sister, Margaret Nicholson, who was married to the Collingwood vicar, Bob Nicholson. Talks about meeting and later marrying George Masters, employment with McNabb Motors and the Collingwood Dairy Factory, Collingwood and Rockville shops, married life, childbirth and child rearing, sewing and thrift, family finances, local entertainment and care of the elderly. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Masters' home in Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003003; OHC-003004; OHC-003005; OHC-003006; OHC-003005; OHC-003008; OHC-003009; OHC-003010; OHC-003011; OHC-003012; OHC-003013; OHC-003014 Quantity: 12 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 580.

Date: Mar 1986 - 01 Mar 1986

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Parkinson, Joyce Naomi, 1921-; Bonsell, Heather Aimee, active 1932-1986

Reference: OHInt-0053/19

Description: Joyce Parkinson was born in Tasman on 28 September 1921. Gives details of her family background including her descent from the pioneer John Henry Richards. Talks about the meeting of her parents, Ruby and Jack Richards, and their life together. Describes the Pakuwau and Kaituna schools and the Paturau `household school'. Recalls going home to nurse her mother when she left school, earning enough money from a variety of work to pay her way through Karitane nursing and then doing `bureau and private casing' until her marriage in 1957. Describes Paturau House and the Taitapu (Tetaitapu) Estate. Discusses the estate's Maori history and the transfer to Pakeha ownership. Talks about mining and timber milling, the Anatori goldfields and the 1929 earthquake. Heather Bonsell was born in Collingwood in 1927. Discusses her parents, Gilbert and Magnolia Richards, and her grandparents on her mother's side, George and Mary Nicholls. Notes that Joyce Parkinson's father, Jack Richards, and Heather Bonsell's father, Gilbert Richards, were brothers. Recalls school, school picnics, Sunday school, pets, church, childhood illnesses, dances, learning to drive and going from boarding school to Correspondence School. Talks about cattle farming. Comments on not being allowed in the shearing shed and about gender based farm jobs. Describes shopping by mail order catalogue and child rearing. Talks about the Mangarakau coal mine, bush felling and the Taitapu gold digging. Venue - Nelson : 1986 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Mrs Parkinson's home in Upper Moutere Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003042; OHC-003043; OHC-003044; OHC-003045; OHC-003046; OHC-003047; OHC-003048 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 585.

Date: 15-25 Sep 1985 - 15 Sep 1985 - 25 Sep 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Page, Alva George Edward, 1910-1989; Page, Jean Sarah, 1916-1991

Reference: OHInt-0053/20

Description: Alva George Page was born at Kawakawa on 13 May 1910. Mr Page's father was a lighthouse keeper at Farewell Spit, Cape Brett, Nelson Boulder Bank, Cape Palliser and Kahurangi Point. Gives details of his childhood and family background. Talks about his schooling, the town of Collingwood in the 1920s, travelling shows and cinematograph (moving pictures) in the Collingwood Hall. Talks about his life at Kahurangi Point as assistant lighthouse keeper and working on his farmlet and later as sole lighthouse keeper. Describes the family's way of life at this remote location and gives details of snaring crayfish and the preservation of fish and eels. Talks about gold prospecting at Lake Otuhie in 1935, gold stampers at Slaty Creek and the Rhodes family of Sandhills Creek in the 1930s. Discusses moving to Collingwood with his family in 1960 and being the caretaker of the Collingwood Motor Camp until 1985. Jean Page was born at Takaka on 25 May 1916. Talks about the jobs she had a a child and thrift in terms of clothing and furnishings. Gives an example of sacks on the floor of the house. Recalls the breaking in of her family's farm on the steep hillsides south of the Anatoki River. Describes Correspondence School, attending a household school, helping her mother with the family, milking cows and working in tobacco and hops. Recalls her courtship and honeymoon at the 1940 exhibition in Wellington. Describes in detail life at Kahurangi including the vegetable garden which increased their self-sufficiency, their expenditure and minimal household amenities. Talks about gathering wild food such as seaweed, dying wool and spinning. Describes both tramping and sheep grazing in the Mt Arthur tablelands and transporting wool by punt from Westhaven Inlet. Describes the isolation of their home and the importance of community interdependence particularly in the event of serious childhood illnesses, births and accidents. Discusses her children's Correspondence School education and the Massey Residential School which they attended. Talks about their children, their jobs and who they married. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Page's home in Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003032; OHC-003033; OHC-003034; OHC-003035; OHC-003036; OHc-003037; OHc-003038; OHc-003039; OHC-003040; OHC-003041 Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 10 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 584.

Date: Feb 1986

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Rhodes, Cecil John Frederic, 1903-1991; Rhodes, Vida Elizabeth, 1908-2000

Reference: OHInt-0053/22

Description: Cecil Rhodes was born at Pakawau on 10 March 1908. Talks about how his grandfather `Old Johnny' Rhodes came originally from Great Britain and settled in Levin. Gives details of other members of the Rhodes and Flowers families. Describes their move to Paturau and Mangarakau in 1907 when Prouse and Saunders moved their flax and timber mill there. Describes the Mangarakau School and life and politics in Mangarakau. Recalls working for Prouse and Saunders and the last gold mine (Golden Blocks Mine) on the Taitapu Estate in 1911. Talks about the Paturau flax mill. After their marriage in 1929, Cecil and Vida Rhodes farmed on land at Sandhills Creek near Paturau, where they raised a family during the 1930s Depression. Talks briefly about childbirth and rearing children. Recalls clearing land for farming and hunting and gathering wild food. Recalls Paturau, the effect of the Murchison Earthquake in 1929, the native bat and the kiwi, subsistence farming, transport and roads and use of the pit sawing technique in building their home. Venue - Collingwood : 1986 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Rhodes' home at Pakawau Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003049; OHC-003050; OHC-003051; OHC-003052; OHC-003053; OHC-003054 Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 586. Search dates: 1986