Wool industry - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6744

Description: 6 views: two of the house Elderslie, one of a man ploughing with two horses, two of a truck loaded with wool bales, and one of the scenery around Elderslie. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-028744 to 028748 and 028760 Quantity: 6 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1906 to 1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: PA1-o-368

Description: Interior and exterior views of the Roslyn Woollen Mill taken circa 1906, including scenes of the various activities from sorting fleeces, spinning wool, weaving, and the finished cloth. Images show machinery, and factory workers (both men and women). Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Views of Roslyn Woollen Mill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Views of Roslyn Woollen Mill, Dunedin. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 1950 - 1959

By: Dalgety & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-WOOL-1950s-01

Description: Four identical joined buff-coloured labels for attaching to wool bales, wool bags or bundles of skins, to be sent to Dalgety & Co., Limited, Auckland. Suggested date provided by donor, 2018. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Relief prints on light card, 67 x 135 mm, joined in a strip 261 x 135 mm.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Ross and Glendining Ltd

Reference: Pan-1353-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over the Roslyn Woollen Mills factory in the centre of the image. Smoking chimney stack in the centre. Scrub and bush-clad hills beyond the factory, with some groups of single-storeyed houses and small paddocks, some with cows and horses grazing. Road runs behind the factory across the centre of the image. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Roslyn Woollen Mills. No. 1. 1 B&W Dunedin; Marginal notes on negative - 5 5 5 5 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 117.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Ross and Glendining Ltd

Reference: Pan-1352-F

Description: Panoramic view over the Roslyn Woollen Mills factory taken from a steep hill behind. Farmland and houses on sloping land to left and beyond the factory. A group of houses is partially hidden by pine trees in the right foreground. Scrub and bush-clad hills behind the factory in the centre. Factory chimney stack left centre with smoke visible. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Ross & Glendening [sic]. Dunedin. No. 2. 2 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - 6 6 6 6 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 121.3 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Ross and Glendining Ltd

Reference: Pan-1355-F

Description: Panoramic angled view down over the Roslyn Woollen Mills factory. Large water resevoir in the right foreground. Tall trees in the centre behind the water tank with a group of houses partially visible behind the trees. Areas of farmland on rolling hills, and a scrub and bush-clad hill in the centre background. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Roslyn Woollen Mills Dunedin N.Z. No. 612; Marginal notes on negative - Ross & Glendenning [sic]. Dunedin. Roslyn Woolen [sic] Mills. 1 B&W. No. 3. Total 4 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 120.3 cm

Date: [ca 1930s]

By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964

Reference: PAColl-6651

Description: 15 views of the Waiorau Sheep Station including mustering, yarding and shearing the sheep and hay harvesting. The file prints have detailed captions on the reverse. Photographer is probably George Leslie Adkin but this has not been confirmed. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-023069 to 023118 (duplicates at 1/2-056556 to 056562) Quantity: 30 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 30 Mar-5 Nov 1992 - 30 Mar 1992 - 05 Nov 1992

From: The Changing Role of Stock and Station Firms in North Otago

By: Simpson, William James Lindsay, 1922-2013

Reference: OHInt-0081/07

Description: Lindsay Simpson was born at Tokarahi on 31 January 1922. Outlines his career with National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (NMA) in positions ranging from office boy to managing director. Talks about career moves to Dunedin, Auckland and Wellington. Describes the merger of Wrightson and NMA in 1972 and becoming General Manager for the New Zealand Stock and Station Agents Association. Talks about his wartime service in the New Zealand Navy and being chosen in 1953 as a member of the New Zealand Returned Services Contingent to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Talks about wool buyers and the New Zealand Wool Brokers Association. Gives a brief history of NMA which was established by George Grey Russell and John McFarlane Ritchie. Comments on W.G. Spite who managed the firm in the 1940s. Lists and describes stock and station firms in Oamaru in the 1950s. Talks about auctioneers and other staff. Summarises local stock and station firm takeovers and amalgamations. Venue - Kakanui : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Joy Green Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005501; OHC-005502; OHC-005503; OHC-005504 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1099. Photocopy of photograph of Lindsay Simpson in 1983; photocopy of photograph of Lindsay Simpson with Navy colleagues in 1953

Date: 18 Aug-23 Oct 1992 - 18 Aug 1992 - 23 Oct 1992

From: The Changing Role of Stock and Station Firms in North Otago

By: Muirhead, Sydney Archibald, 1912-1994

Reference: OHInt-0081/06

Description: Syd Muirhead was born in Oamaru on 4 March 1912. Outlines his eighteen years with Darling and McDowell starting as office junior in 1930. Describes the firm's business, agencies and shipping. Talks about the staff including R.A. McDowell, Horace McDowell, Albert Robertson and Harry Robertson. Describes the wool appraisal scheme, the activities and locations of the big wool and grain stores in Oamaru, poultry farming, threshing machinery for harvesting grain and seed cleaning. Talks about being mobilised into war service and the firm appealing this. Recalls the end of the firm Darling and McDowell. Talks about managers of other stock firms in Oamaru including George Elvidge, George Stringer and B.B. Walton. Recalls other personalities including poet George Meek and Frank Cooney. During part of the interview Syd Muirhead presents his tape and slide show of the North Otago Farmers Co-operative Association fire in 1966 Venue - Oamaru : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Joy Green Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005491; OHC-005492; OHC-005493 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1094. Photocopy of photograph of Syd Muirhead and others at New Zealand Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants Federation Conference in 1944; presentation of QSM in 1989

Date: 5 Nov 1992 - 05 Nov 1992

From: The Changing Role of Stock and Station Firms in North Otago

By: Dunne, John, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0081/01

Description: Jack Dunne was born on 25 October 1925. Recalls joining the North Otago Farmers Co-operative Association Ltd (NOFCA) after education at Waitaki Boys High School. Talks about his work as a junior and then as a ledger keeper and cashier for twelve years. Recalls different departments and personnel in the store. Focuses on his time as a stock and station agent and auctioneer. Describes learning to judge animals and draft fat sheep. Talks about mixed farms, grain and seed dressing and mortgage sales. Comments on wool prices in the 1950s. Recalls the auctioneer Jack Stevenson and other staff including George Stringer, B.B. Walton, Alec Robertson, Howard Rooney, Bob Hall, Andy Aitkenhead, Jack Black, Archie Taylor and Charlie Beattie. Talks about the takeover of Darling and McDowell and the financial viability of NOFCA after takeovers. Comments on the reduction in staff size. Venue - Weston : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Joy Green Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005494 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1095. Photocopies of photographs of Jack Dunne auctioning sheep about 1970; on his retirement in 1985; the Farmers building about 1966; B.B. Walton; the North Otago Farmers Co-operative Assoication (NOFCA) Jubile, 1901-1951; the NOFCA building and NOFCA staff in 1951

Date: ca 1910

From: Davis, Bruce Valentine, 1913-2003 :Photographs and negatives

By: Collins, Claude Morris, -1951

Reference: PAColl-0328-1-01

Description: Engine room, Mosgiel woollen mill, circa 1910, photographed by C M Collins. Information regarding this print reads: "...new machines installed into the Mosgiel Woollen Mills by Herbert George Grant in about 1909 or 1910. He was the chief engineer, had installed machinery in New Plymouth, and in the first of the factories in Woolongong in Australia..." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.4 x 19.1 cm, mounted on card

Date: 1926

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

Reference: APG-1624-1/2-G

Description: View of the Roslyn Woollen Mills, Dunedin. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1926. Dated from Godber File in Photographic Archives (Under 90. Woollen Mills. Dunedin. 1926. Roslyn.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1910

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

By: Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: 1/1-009178-G

Description: Photographic copy of an undated Caxton Company lithograph depicting the Roslyn Worsted and Woollen Mills in Dunedin. Shows a large factory. A sign on one building reads "Ross & Glendining Ltd Roslyn Worsted and Hosiery Mills". Photographic copy taken in 1910 by Steffano Francis Webb. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - [unreadable]; On original lithograph - bottom right: Caxton Co Litho Dunedin NZ Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: Sept 1942

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980

Reference: PAColl-8163-39

Description: Bales of wool being loaded from a horse-drawn cart onto a launch on Lake Wanaka, Otago. A wall of mountains is visible in the background. Photograph taken circa 6 September 1942, by J D S Roberts for the Free Lance. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - At the head of Lake Wanaka is Mr Stephenson's Mt Albert Station, where the wool is carted from the shearing shed to the lakeside and taken by launch to Makarora at the head, thence by road (seen in picture across lake) to railhead at Cromwell, 60 miles away. The launch is here seen being loaded by primitive methods. Mt Albert is 7063 ft high.'; Verso - bottom right - J D S Roberts / Bannockburn / Central Otago; Verso - bottom left - 9 1/2 x 5 7/8; Verso - bottom centre - 6/9/42 At the head of Lake Wanaka is Mr Stephenson's Mt Albert Station, where the wool is carted from the shearing shed to the lakeside and taken by launch to Makarora at the head, thence by road (seen in picture across lake) to railhead at Cromwell, 60 miles away. The launch is here seen being loaded by primitive methods. Mt Albert is 7063 ft high. (Caption from New Zealand Free Lance, ca 6/9/42) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.2 x 15.8 cm