Sawmills - New Zealand - Waikato Region

Date: 1956

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to forests, forest parks and forestry]

By: New Zealand Forest Service; R E Owen (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-FOREST-1956-01

Description: Brochure shows a photograph of logs at the Waipa Mill. Inside is an illustrated flowchart of the various processes the wood goes through to be turned into timber products: log cut-off, log wash, log frame saw, log band saw, docking saw, sapstain bath, grading and sorting table, straddle truck, kiln drying, air drying, end trimmer, loading for shipment, creosoting poles, steam from wood waste. Back cover shows a site plan of the factory site, between Waipa Village and the Whaka Forest. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded pamphlet, 215 x 293 mm (folded)

Date: Between 1915 and 1926

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Sherriff, D J, active 1901-1931

Reference: PA1-q-102

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, relating to his family, his work and his interests. Family photographs include portraits of his wife (Laura) and two children (William and Phyllis), and scenes of their home in Whiteman's Valley Road, Silverstream; views of the Hutt Valley including large numbers of cars travelling to Trentham Racecourse, and the Hutt River. Another group of images relate to a holiday at the Mendip Hills Homestead in Canterbury, with scenes of farm life, including haymaking, merino sheep, and farm buildings. During their stay in the South Island Godber also took photographs of Dunedin (including the Ross Reservoir, Otago Boys' High School, Seacliff Mental Hospital, the 1926 Dunedin Exhibition, and the Hillside Railway Workshops); Invercargill (including the Invercargill Railway Workshops); Stewart Island, Moeraki, Tuatapere, Waiau River, Oamaru and Port Chalmers. Various railway stations in Canterbury and Otago, the Burnside Iron Mills, and the Rosslyn Mills. Godber was a volunteer fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade with the album including views of the building, groups of firemen, fire engines and other fire fighting equipment, and a building in Petone damaged by fire. In his work with New Zealand Railways, mainly at the Petone Railway Workshops, he took interior photographs of various buildings, including the Machine Shop and finishing benches, the engine room, lathes, boilers, and fitting shops. He also took photographs of many of the steam engines that were built and worked on at the workshops. One scene shows a group of men watching a fight. Many images show his interest in logging railways, particularly in the Piha, Karekare, Anawhata area. Scenes of logging camps, various methods of transporting logs including bullock teams, logging trains, and dams created and then tripped to send logs down by river, and timber mills. Other topics covered in Godber's photographs are scenes at Maori marae and meeting houses, with some of the people identified; Maori carving and rafter designs; beekeeping, and gold mining. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber album 109 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 38.0 x 26.5 cm (257 p.)

Date: 1906-1907

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

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: PA1-o-371

Description: Views of various factories and businesses in the Auckland Region, taken circa 1906, by unidentified photographers. They include interior and exterior views, and employees. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Auckland Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Auckland. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm

Date: 1885

From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[Coromandel sketchbook] 1882-1897.

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-360-q-020

Description: A sawmill with logs floating in a river in the foreground, other buildings beyond to the right, a hill behind Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 180 x 250 mm

Date: Early 1900s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-125

Description: Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, black and white photographs, and prints of colour illustrations. Mostly connected with New Zealand native trees, and the timber industry. There are pages dealing with different native trees, and then with the various processes involved in felling the trees; transportation, including horse-drawn, logging railways, and water-born timber using dams; and timber mills. On page [7] of this album there are three personal photographs taken by John Logan Campbell from his home in Parnell, used as Christmas cards in 1900 and 1901; on page [27] is a print of a photograph originally taken by Albert Percy Godber, showing a poster in Maori warning against carelessness in lighting fires in the bush (see full information about the original, in the record at APG-1454-1/4-G).

Date: 7 August 1993 - 07 Aug 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Landy, Hazel Irene, 1908-1998

Reference: OHInt-0067/088

Description: Hazel Irene Landy born Waihi and has lived in the same house all of her life. Outlines family background. Recalls school where she spent 42 years as a pupil and later as a teacher. Talks about mother's primitive life and father losing a hand in saw mill accident. Gives details of Depression and talks about divisions in society and Upper crust (Expression). Describes mother's recollections of Tarawera Eruption. Other topics covered include: time at Teachers' Training College, Auckland; shows at the time - `Naughty Marietta' and `No No Nanette' and teaching experience in the country before returning to Waihi to teach for 34 years. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005864A; OHV-0277C Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1271.

Date: 14 August 1993 - 14 Aug 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Valder, Lilian, 1911-2001

Reference: OHInt-0067/057

Description: Lilian Valder born Hamilton. Father worked in sawmilling. Recalls earliest memory being that of Ellis & Barnard (sawmilling firm) being burned down on her fourth birthday. On completion of secretarial course worked for father who by this time was in partnership with Dan Bryant in a business scheme, helping farmers' sons buy farms. Explains how they organised a fund and raised money. Recalls that sister was helped by scheme to buy farm (scrub land) in Northern King Country where they (Lilian and sister) managed sheep and cattle and made it a very viable farm. Describes attitudes of community which regarded them as freaks. Talks about problem with land and what was known as Bush Sickness which actually turned out to be a Cobalt deficiency - reference to the Cawthron Institute in Nelson. Talks about retirement at Waihi Beach and hobbies and interests. Discusses involvement with Forest and Bird Society and interest in preserving native bush to the extent that it can be preserved in New Zealand. Explains how it was her father, a timbermiller, who first joined her in Forest and Bird Society almost from its inception. Describes Trust she set up, proceeds to be divided in four ways of which Forest and Bird is one. IHC and CCS also benefit from the trust. Describes the day she was awarded the MBE by Dame Catherine [Tizard]. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Beach Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1668.

Date: 5 January 2016

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-001797

Description: Digital photographs of exterior and interior views of the historic Endean's native timber saw mill site on Ongarue Stream Road, near Waimiha, taken by Dylan Owen on 2016, shows: exterior views of the site and derelict buildings, including rusty machinery, old steam engine, and furnace; interiors of offices and houses, some full of graffiti, homemade wall collages and Rastafarian murals, and old office files. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a digital folder called "January - July 2016 Images Completed\Endeans mill Waimiha January 2016" and 6 subfolders "Endeans mill main office", "Endeans mill panoramas", "Endeans mill worker houses", "Interior Endeans mill", and "Mill worker house interiors". Quantity: 83 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2 Dec 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-40309-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 1/2 plate Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 2 Dec 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-40242-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 2 Dec 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-40244-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 29 Mar 1952

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-30439-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 6 Apr 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37656-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation of Manunui township, Ruapehu District, Manawatu-Wanganui Region. Whanganui River is visible on left of frame, North Island main trunk railway line and road runs up past large sawmill on right of frame. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 29 Mar 1952

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-30441-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Other - Note on negative sleeve reads: NZ Dairy Co-op Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 29 Mar 1952

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-30440-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Other - Note on eeve reads: NZ Dairy Co-op Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 29 Mar 1952

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-30451-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Apr 1949

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Downie, T M, active 1940s-1950s

Reference: 1/2-032684-F

Description: At a timber mill at Mangakino, Waikato, April 1949. Shows men using a cross-cut saw. Photograph taken by T M Downie. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 9 May 1967

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-66872-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Other - Note on negative sleeve reads: Carter Merchants Ltd Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 9 May 1967

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-66869-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Other - Note on negative sleeve reads: Carter Merchants Ltd Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1920

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

Reference: APG-0857-1/2-G

Description: Mill yard at Ellis & Burnand's sawmill at Mangapehi in 1920. Shows the mill in the background, huge logs in the foreground and two unidentified timber workers. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 157 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Mill yard. Mangapeehi. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches