Farm equipment

Date: [1879-1885]

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 79-027-03

Description: Miscellaneous farming notes, letters and New Zealand import-export and shipping returns (1885). The notes are on specification for splitting post and rails, Dry River Station; Skipton Cave guano; native obstruction to roads; turnip sowing; post and rail contract; tenders, post and rails; Elgar's instructions re spelling sheep; Toliff's instructions re turnips; grass seed and crop calculation; protection and free trade; crop calculation; post nails, Ward line; harvest; Thos Kempton junior. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: 2 Feb 1998 - 02 Feb 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: Milnes, Dickon J, active 1998; Favel, Annie Keturah, 1909-2005

Reference: OHInt-0428/08

Description: Annie Favel was born in Edendale in 1909. Gives details about the history and location of her family farm and other dairy farms in the area. Mentions dairy factories at Seaward Downs and Edendale. Describes the Ayrshire cows, the milking process, the milking season, milking both by hand and with machinery and making butter. Describes the effect of World War I and the Depression on the farm and community. Describes the house, gardens, farm buildings, farm equipment and windmills on the farm. Talks about primary school at Edendale and attending Southland Girls High School. Discusses being kept back from school permanently to work on the farm. Comments on the absence of a division of labour based on age or gender. Describes a morning on the farm, driving her father's first car and social interaction with other families. Mentions Bible Class, church activitites, dances, going to the pictures, hockey, football and tennis. Talks about her relationship with her brother and the changes he made to the farm. Describes trips to Invercargill and shopping in Edendale. Mentions that she received no wages for her farm work. Interviewer(s) - Dickon Milnes Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2599.

Date: 2018

By: Golden Bay Museum Society Incorporated; Peters, Anita, active 2018

Reference: OHColl-1252

Description: Collection comprises interviews conducted by Anita Peters with women involved in farming in the Golden Bay / Mohua area: Theo Blyth, Jenny Haldane, Beryl Rogers, Leentje Thorpe, Nancy Ward, and Carol Wyllie. Project commissioned by the Golden Bay Museum Society. Project received Award in Oral History funding from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage in 2017 under the title 'Golden Bay Women in Farming'. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 6 Interview(s). 13 digital sound recording(s). 13 digital image(s). 31 Electronic document(s). Search dates: 2018

Date: 1930 - 1931

By: New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1930-01

Description: Includes advertisements and illustrations for items on sale at Farmers (Christchurch). Items include household and farm supplies. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Sales catalogue of 336 pages, 272 x 215 mm.

Date: 1876-1886

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 79-027-11

Description: Correspondence on various topics including the Waiohine run, Board matters, the Spratts matter, plans for the woolshed (1881), fencing contract and invoices for farm goods Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of colonial soldiers. Two letters to Claire Phillips with animal and bird ink drawings, by Hackworth; woolshed plans; postcard showing officers of the second contingent (1900)

Date: 1878-1881

By: Williams, (Mr), active 1878-1881

Reference: MSX-4473

Description: Comprises inventory and valuation of stock, 1 Mar 1878, 1 Mar 1879; cash account, Feb 1878-Oct 1880; and analysis of stock transactions, 1878-1881. The farm was in the Hawke's Bay region. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume. 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (26 cm, black morocco) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr A J Little, Wellington, Feb 1988

Date: 1 Dec 1884-Jul 1894

From: Halcombe family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11397-38

Description: Contains receipts and invoices relating to the Halcombe family. Expenses include school fees, produce and household goods, fencing supplies, saddlery, and other farming materials. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1 Dec 1884-Jul 1894

From: Halcombe family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11397-40

Description: Contains exhaustive inventory of Halcombe family expenses 10 May to 31 [Oct?] 1887. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1971-1995, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: Series-6136-6

Description: Transparencies of stables and farm structures and equipment, taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton. Mounts are annotated with the subject, station/farm name, and/or location. Dates are sometimes annotated. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in several cases: A five row, 30 slides per row, metal case labelled "Stables" in which the arrangement was generally alphabetical by the the farm/station name or location, from bottom to top of each row and from left to right; A three-row, 25 slides per row, plastic case labelled "Stables Gates Fences", in which the arrangement of the transparencies of stables was alphabetical by the location or the farm/station name, and the arrangement of transparencies of farm structures and equipment followed no apparent order; A small plastic slide case, capable of holding approximately 30- 40 mounted transparencies, labelled "Farm houses". There was no apparent order; A four row, 36 slides per row metal case, labelled "Men's Qtrs/cookshops Barns Stores, Libraries". There was no apparent order; A four row, 36 slides per row metal case, labelled "Cow sheds killing sheds smithies general groups misc". There was no apparent order; A three row, 25 slides per row plastic case, labelled "Farm Bldgs misc dairies men's q office etc". There was no apparent order. Quantity: 463 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from original container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom. Sheets containing fewer slides than the total number of pockets denote the end of the contents of an original container.

Date: [ca 1930s-1960s]

From: Dawson, Peter: Collection relating to New Zealand Meat Laboratory

Reference: MSY-8215

Description: Volume of product formulae with index. Contains recipes for agricultural and household products including stock licks, fruit sprays, foot rot cure for sheep, dog food, self-raising flour, hair waxing lotion, whitewash, auto polish, sheep marking fluid, vitamin cream, armpit deodouriser, and Rawleigh's Colic Ease. Printed matter and typescript tipped in. Compiled in part by Gilbert Alexander Lawrence. Inscriptions: Album page - top right - The Contents of this book is strictly confidential. G A Lawrence. Quantity: 1 volume(s) 354 pages. Physical Description: Bound volume

Date: [1879-1897, 1920]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1032

Description: Most of the papers relate to R D D Maclean; identified persons entered under name. Included is correspondence and papers relating to insurance, stocks and shares, land, wool export, power of attorney, invitations; telegram from Raita Makerenei, Marton, to Makereni, Napier, asking him to remove his name from the register as he wouldn't be able to make it, he was experiencing difficulties; forest tree planting regulations, the setting up of a club for youths and girls at Napier; receipt with portion of Arapata Hakura; NZPA business with Julius Bertram, petition from National Association of New Zealand re the borrowing bills and problems at the `Evening press', Wellington; other notes and papers. Arrangement: Second part of folder formerly at MS Papers 32B : 166 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1874-1895]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1031

Description: Most of the papers relate to R D D Maclean; identified persons entered under Name. Included is correspondence relating to farming, property management, land deals, letter to Capt McLean of Glenorchy re pedigrees of horses, farm equipment including flyer for cream separator, information re library and rail services in London, copy of Andrew's essay on New Zealand, business, insurance, stocks and shares and financial affairs, clubs and membership, freight, especially wool, examination instructions of the Inns of Court. Letter to Mrs McLean re artist's proof at the Dore Gallery, London (1891); note re Florence Maclean's inheritance on her mother's death, nd. Some draft outward letters. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

From: Evans, Malcolm :Cartoons entered in the 1993 Qantas Media Awards

Reference: A-299-034

Description: Shows a farmer and his wife in a garage. The farmer is repairing his tractor and talking to his wife, who is at the workbench, about MMP. Refers to the question of who will ultimately be responsible for `running things' under an MMP system. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.

Date: 1937 - 1938

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to agriculture, farms and farming]

By: New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company; Dalgety New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-1938-01

Description: Prices for grain, stock foods, general products, fencing wire, iron, general sundries, shears, ploughs, "Hinemoa" mix fertilisers, grass seeds, root and fodder seeds, "Hinemoa" pig food. Some issues advertise the "New Kiwi" shearing machine. Seasonal specials for September 1938 include the Picard emasculator, Mowat tailing instrument, Dokko, Stockholm tar, electric fence control, bluestone, "Black Leaf 40" nicotine bluestone worm drench. Quantity: 6 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Six booklets, each 225 x 144 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dalgety NZ Ltd in 1977.

Date: [1860-1880]

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 79-027-10

Description: Flyer for Osborne's harvester and binder; iron trade report (London, 1883); and Joint Stock Co Act and amendments (1860) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file. Illustration of Osborne's harvester and binder

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024985

Description: Depicts a farmer frowning as a travelling salesman at his door tries to sell him a safe alternative to a quad bike. The salesman is also seeling 'rolls of 'Nigerian magic carpets'. Refers to government aims to reduce quad bike claims to ACC by 30 percent within three years (see TV3 News 11 May 2013). Also refers to common and well known scams called 'Nigerian 419 scams' which are confidence tricks using fax, email and internet. The scam is not limited to Nigeria, but has become associated with this country. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1971

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0364

Description: All images show a man at work with a digger, and a woman driving a tractor, clearing land towards the East Cape area, possibly near Raukokore. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1 and 18 October 2013

From: 'One Hundred Havens' - Marlborough Sounds History Project

By: Leov, Nola Matilda, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-1580-02

Description: Interview with Nola Leov by Helen Beaglehole recorded on 1 October 2013. Also includes a document containing additional information supplied by Leov to Beaglehole in a phone call on 18 October 2013. Topics covered in interview include: early life in the Marlborough Sounds; family history including at Te Towaka and Rai Valley; early memories of the Sounds; childhood home; chores; community; food; education; farming in the Sounds and the farming community; phones; farming equipment and innovations; future of Te Towaka; and access to medical care. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 2 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) digital abstract and additional information document.. 1 printed abstract(s) includes recording agreement form and additional information document.. Search dates: 2013

Date: 2014

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0028858

Description: Shows two farmers overlooking a valley in which all the household chimneys are smoking. One of the farmers comments "Farm equipment brochures are good fire-starters". Refers to GDT (Global Dairy Trade). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Akaroa scenes] / Cranleigh Barton [ca 1950]

Reference: A-227-330

Description: Shows a curved road leading to some buildings containing farm equipment. Includes trees in the foreground, part of a garden, and grassy plains and snow capped mountains in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 192 x 285 mm