Men - Employment - New Zealand - Bay of Plenty Region
New Zealand. Native Department : Petition from Hohepa Paama and 45 others
Date: 6 Jan 1912
By: New Zealand. Native Department
Reference: MS-Papers-8811
Description: Manuscript petition in Maori, signed by Hohepa Paama, Tawhiri Te Mutu, Rapaera Te Teira and 43 others living on Matakana Island, regarding who should work on the railway line from Waihi to Tauranga, and asking that preference be given to them in the construction of the line. With typed translation. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript
Interview with Oscar Lord
Date: 12 Oct 1983
From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford
By: Lord, George Oscar, 1903-1986
Reference: OHInt-0470/17
Description: Oscar Lord was born in Auckland in 1903. Describes leaving the family farm at Taneatua and becoming a ganger on the railway line between Te Puke and Taneatua. Focuses on working on the gang. Gives details of living and working conditions on his next job on the Rotorua-Taupo railway line in 1928. Notes that 150 men were employed and the project stopped abruptly. Describes how the men were transferred to other jobs and he went to a road-building job near Opoutama. Recalls returning to the farm at Taneatua, hard work on the farm and conflict over the division of the land. Talks about his subsequent work reclaiming land at Whakatane, managing a dairy farm at Otakiri and working for his brother Frank at Rotorua. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2865.
Ministry of Public Works and Mines : Petition from Hemi Maka and 17 others
Date: 20 Jan 1915
By: New Zealand. Public Works Department
Reference: MS-Papers-8810
Description: Manuscript petition in Maori, signed by Hemi Maka, R H Wineti, Enoka Ngaitai and fifteen others living at Otamarakau, regarding who should work on the railway line from Tauranga to Opotiki, and asking that preference be given to them in the construction of the line from Waitahanui River to Matata. With typed translation. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms and typescript
New Zealand. Public Works Department : Petition of Takaanui Hohaia Tarakawa
Date: 30 Jan-14 Feb 1917
By: New Zealand. Public Works Department
Reference: MS-Papers-8812
Description: Manuscript petition in Maori, from T H Tarakawa of Te Puke, requesting that a railway station be erected at Pukaingataru where the roads from Te Tumu and Maketu meet. With typed translation and rough sketch map. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript
Timber workers taking a break, Whakarewarewa - Photograph taken by E P Christensen
Date: Apr 1949
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982
Reference: 1/2-040796-F
Description: Maori timber workers taking a break for a smoke and a cup of tea, Whakarewarewa, April 1949. Photograph taken by E P Christensen. 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.
Government Tourist Publicity Bureau, Rotorua
Date: [ca 1930]
From: Tourist and Publicity
Reference: 1/1-012014-F
Description: Interior of the Government Tourist Publicity Bureau in Rotorua, showing two men behind a public desk. Photograph taken circa 1930 by an unidentified photographer working for a publicity arm of the Government, possibly the Tourist and Publicity Department OR the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts OR the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts and Publicity. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Railway workers in a cutting, during the construction of the Main Trunk Line at Raurimu
Date: ca 1907
From: Tibbutt, Alfred George :Main Trunk Railway photographs
Reference: PA1-q-244-13
Description: Unidentified railway workers at a cutting, circa 1907, during the construction of the Raurumu spiral on the Main Trunk Line. Shows a scene inside the cutting. Men, holding shovels, stand on carts used for earthmoving. Photograph taken by A G Tibbutt. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Tibbutt Victoria Studios Hamilton NZ; Caption on back page of album reads: "Cutting. Raurimu" Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.5 x 20.8, on album page 24.3 x 30 cm