Agricultural machinery

Date: ca1910-ca1929

By: Jansen, Elwyn George, 1904-1979; Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s

Reference: PAColl-6174

Description: Photographs relating to the Jensen family, especially to E G (Paddy) Jensen. There is also a portrait of the Presbyterian medical missionary, Dr Owen Lamont Eaton, who was shot in China in 1939. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1959

From: [Ephemera and sales catalogues for agricultural machinery and farm equipment. 1950-1959].

By: Mataura ensign (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1959-01

Description: Front cover shows an illustration of a traction engine. Inside pages contain the day's programme, including a parade through town, setting and balancing competitions, a grand parade, races, threshing, chaff-cutting and pressing demonstrations, and a steerers' competation. Other pages contain advertising for local Gore businesses. The event was sponsored by the combined committee of Gore Pipe Band and Gore & District Piping and Dancing Society. The 31 traction engines, their specifications, age and owners are listed. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, each 215 x 140 mm. Provenance: One copy purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2003.

Date: 1930s to 1950

Reference: PA1-q-148

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Rivers and Leach families. Many of the people and scenes are unidentified. They include various houses and a large number of farming scenes with Southdown sheep, hay barns, harvesting linseed, ploughing, and logging in a plantation of pine trees. Some photographs of a rural bungalow house are captioned with dates between 1940 and 1942 and 'Glen Grove'. All the places which are identified are in the South Island, so it seems likely that the two homes that are named are in the Canterbury or Otago areas. One group portrait shows members of the Scargill Voluntary Aid Division A number of scenes show an Austin Sheerline car, a make which was introduced in 1947 and continued to be produced until 1954. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with soft brown cover; 27 x 17 cm Provenance: Donated by Ken McAllister, Christchurch, 1980 Processing information: Name record for 'Glen Grove (House)' was retired in December 2017 as it is unclear if this caption is the name of a house.

Date: 1901-1924 nd

From: Thorp, Nigel, fl 1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5400-08

Description: Includes memorandum and articles of association of the Parkvale Co-op Dairy Co (1901) and boiler and grade certificate for same; various certificates and contracts for Dalefield, Carrington, Clareville, Belvedere, Taratahi Co-operative Dairy companies, flyers for agricultural machinery - Wilton's cow tester, the Vulcan weigher, etc; the New Plymouth Patriotic Committee, samples of cheese logos, press galley re NZ Co-operative Dairy Co Ltd (1922) and publicity appeal re prisoners of war, British merchant seamen detailed in enemy countries Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1896-1913]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1601

Description: Photograph album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of the Lincoln Agricultural College at Lincoln, Canterbury. Shows photographs of livestock, harvesting machinery, draught houses, crops, animal housing and husbandry and agricultural students. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 16 x 22 cm

Date: 1904

By: Buick & Young (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-MACHINERY-1904-01

Description: Shows portraits of the proprietors E R B Holben and W Kirk. Includes descriptions and illustrations of engines, boilers, cream vats, pulleys, pumps, milk cans, hoses, babcock testers, the "Neulyte" incandescent gas installation, electrical goods, cream coolers, butter printer and pounder, curd mills, rotary milk pumps, corn grinder, siphon well, turbine water-wheel, butter churns, the "Baltic" separator, "Melotte" separator, Reid's hand separator, woodworking tools, horticultural tools, "Aquarius" spray pump, side-delivery rake, Manitoba hay stacker, Thomas hay tedder, Noxon mowers and disc harrows, hoes, bone cutters, potato digger, grain grinder, pulper and slicer, Daniels Canadian incubator, O.K. washing machine, hay rake, steamship machinery, Wagner's testing glassware. Quantity: 1 sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Catalogue of 100 pages, 217 x 282 mm.

Date: 1949-1957

By: Brown, John Bruce, 1907-1989; Madle, Elizabeth, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5880

Description: Land clearance and development projects during the 1950s. Photographs show examples of techniques and machinery used for bringing in land such as rolling and crushing scrub and using cattle to crush and clear lupins. Much of the land developed for agriculture during this period was pumice land. There is a slide sequence designed to show methods for establishing pasture on this particular soil type, and a number of other slides showing the finished product -- productive farms in the Rotorua area. Landblocks named in this collection are, Newstead Block, "Rushden" Waipukurau, Lynwood F. S., and Okahukura Block. Arrangement: Transparencies at PA12-1577 to 1581 Quantity: 127 b&w original photographic print(s). 105 transparencies. Provenance: Mrs Madle is daughter of Bruce Brown (1906-1990?) a former Deputy Director of Lands & Survey.

Date: 1908

By: Reid & Gray Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1908-01

Description: Includes engravings illustrating the new steel frame drill, with lists of users, testimonials, advice about amount of seed required per acre, and manure quantities. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, red covers, 232 x 162 mm.

Date: 1907

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1907-01

Description: Includes illustrations for farm machinery including harrows, ploughs, drills, rollers, thrashers, horse gear, chaff cutter, corn crushers, turnip cutters, sheep-feeding racks, drays and carts, wool presses, baling and sewing cages, baling presses, lawn mowers, dehorner, potato planter, lawn sweeper, garden seat, bone cutter, horse clippers, wire strainers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 v., illus., 240 x 155 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1901

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1900-01

Description: Sales catalogue listing and illustrating ploughs, harrows, cultivators, scufflers, grain and fertiliser drills, mowers, hay-tedders, rakes, reapers, binders, knotters, sheaf carriers, cutters. Centrefold shows the coats of arms of countries and states using Massey-Harris implements in 1900 (includes most states of Australia, South Africa, European countries, New Zealand, Argentina, Algeria, Japan, Newfoundland). The first pages announce the achievement of highest award at the Paris Exposition 1899-1900. The attractive front cover shows that a New Zealand branch or distributor had premises at the corner of Crawford and Bond Streets, Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Volume of 40 pages, each 240 x 165 mm.

Date: 1901-1904

By: Copeland, J, active 1901-1904; Copeland, H M, active 1901-1904

Reference: qMS-0546

Description: Press-copy impressions of outwards correspondence detailing activities as agents mainly in real estate in Palmerston North, Manawatu, and North Wairarapa, but also in mowers, reapers, binders, and bicycle mechanisms, Palmerston North Quantity: 1 volume(s) (1023 leaves). Physical Description: Letterbook (½ black morocco, blue buckram; 29 cm)

Date: [ca 1908-1910]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-019991-G

Description: Farm at Akatarawa. An unformed road is in the foreground, and stones are piled against the fence at centre. Steam powered farm machinery is in the background. A man holding a child is standing by the gate in the foreground. Photograph taken circa 1908-1910 by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1907

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1907-02

Description: Includes illustrations for farm machinery including harrows, Duncan's travelling whares (workman's caravans), whippletrees, ploughs, drills, rollers, thrashers, turnip cutters, sheep-feeding racks, drays, wool presses, wire strainers, etc. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume of 88 pages, ill., 238 x 180 mm.

Date: 1913-1916

By: Ward, Alexander Lee, 1877-1964

Reference: MSX-4552

Description: Letter book kept by Ward. The majority of the letters are related to to the running of Woodcliffe Farm and deal with livestock, farm supplies and finance. Ward possessed one of the earliest shearing machines in New Zealand and correspondence relating to this is included. There are also several letters written by Ward's wife. Woodcliffe Farm, Wimbledon was broken in in the 1870s by Ward's father, Alexander Quantity: 1 volume(s) (107 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss (carbon copies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs E Lee, Wellington, 1997

Date: 1924

From: [Ephemera and sales catalogues of octavo size, for agricultural machinery and farm equipment. 1910-1930]

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1924-01

Description: Includes illustrations for farm machinery including wool presses, hoists, wire strainers, lifting jacks, sawbenches and saws, casement stays and gate-fasteners. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 20 pages, illus., 217 x 138 mm.

Date: 1888-1925

By: Cox, James, 1846-1925

Reference: MS-0621-0655

Description: Day to day record of the life of an itinerant labourer. Most days are recorded, in a pencilled hand on tiny pieces of paper. Entries typically begin with a summary of the weather before recounting his work and movements for the day. Occasionally there is brief comment on social and political events. Navigate to child records to see the digitised copies of each diary Publication - Miles Fairburn `Nearly out of heart and hope. The puzzle of a colonial labourer's diary' (AUP, 1995) discusses Cox's life and diary keeping in depth. See also Fairburn's entry on Cox in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Collection file has copies of correspondence with donor, research notes etc Source of title - Supplied title James Cox arrived from England in 1880. From 1889-1890 he worked in flax mills in Manawatu; In 1890-1891 he spent some months in Christchurch before returning to flax mill work near Levin and Foxton; For much of 1892 and 1893 he could not find work and was reduced to a swagman existence around Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay. Later he based himself in Carterton and did a variety of casual labouring jobs. Old age and ill health made employment diffcult during the later 1910s, but his life improved when he was accepted into the Carter Home of indigent men in Carterton. He lived there from 1918 until three months before his death when he moved to the Buchanan Home, Greytown. Quantity: 35 volume(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (grey case folders in grey box)

Date: 1909 - 1910

Reference: Eph-B-SHEARING-1910-01

Description: Includes illustrations for machine parts, cutter heads, brackets, fricton wheels, forks, pulleys, pins, shears, and for a sharpening machine, and a jig and screwdriver. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 v., illus., 248 x 188 mm.

Date: 05, 12 Nov 2007 - 05 Nov 2007 - 12 Nov 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Lill, Gordon Thomas, 1921-2009

Reference: OHInt-0920-10

Description: Interview with Gordon Lill. Born in 1921 in Ashburton. Backgrounds paternal family, parents Wilfred Thomas Lill, mother Edith Francis Caroline Lill (nee Watson), grandfather William Thomas Lill, farmer in Ashburton, and grandmother Clara Lill (nee Taylor), who was involved in temperance union movement. Mentions maternal grandparents Joseph Watson, headmaster of Willowby primary school and Emily Watson (nee Hight) from Brookside. Says he went to Westerfield primary school and Ashburton High School. Refers to taking agricultural course and having John Bell scholarship. Describes growing up on 'Lone Pine' farm, Westerfield, cooking on coal range, pitting root vegetables for winter, milking, using Clydesdale horses. Details growing oats and grass seed, turnips, giant rape, reaping oats, working the chaff cutter. Mentions family had thrashing mill and traction engine. Talks about impact of 1928 slump and 1930s Depression and mortgagee sales. Says father sold Westerfield farm to clear debt and bought small farm at Eiffelton with money from maternal grandfather's estate. Explains crops grown were wheat, ryegrass and barley. Talks about being called up for army training at Burnham, then being manpowered out in 1940 to work at Mesopotamia sheep station and Inverary station. Describes autumn muster, and blade shearing. Mentions manpower shortage during World War two. Recalls marriage to Doris Joan Davison and big snow of 1945. Says bought sheep farm at Montalto with his parents. Describes developing the farm, stone picking, having the house divided into two flats. Purchased farm at Springburn, and another block where he farmed sheep and cattle. Bought property at Carew to farm sheep. Details border dyke irrigation process. Talks about water allocation, changing from government to private ownership as Hinds Mayfield Irrigation Scheme. Refers to building new house at Carew. Explains purchase of 'Whenuapai' farm at Cairnbrae, Methven, in 1962 or 1963 which was a mixed cropping farm with wheat, barley, peas, grass seed and Border Romney or Coopworth sheep. Refers to International Agricultural Exchange Association students on the farm. Discusses soil, wind, rainfall and a typical year. Mentions soil fertility, use of lentils and getting bigger farm machinery. Talks about role of farm advisors. Explains process of changing farm to all cropping farm in 1968, selling stock to grow wheat, peas and ryegrass. Refers to getting bigger plough, tractor and grain silo, building a seed cleaning plant and shed. Explains direct heading wheat and peas with Roundup. Talks about soil testing, inputs of nitrogen, urea, sulphate of ammonia, always using fertilisers and chemicals. Says diesel prices forced direct drilling. Discusses wind erosion, putting in shelter belts subsidised by South Canterbury catchment board. Talks about wife's role on farm, all their sons going farming and Graeme Lill working at Lincoln College. Refers to moisture and soil testing. Reflects on mechanisation making farming easier. Talks about droving and now trucking sheep to sale yards. Mentions Lyndhurst Barrhill scheme pumping water from Rakaia River back to the RDR (Rangitata Diversion race). Refers to getting Dry Creek closed for grazing for nine years. Discusses community activites, nine years on South Canterbury Catchment Board, Mayfield A&P Association President in 1959, being on Monalto School committee, Hinds School committee, Hinds Rugby Football Club, Chairperson of Methven Lions, Chairman of Methven Aged Persons Welfare Association, Chairman of Methven House home committee, and involvment in Federated Farmers and United Wheatgrowers. Details his purchase of maternity hospital and turning it into Methven House aged persons home. Mentions being involved in St Davids Church, Allenton, Ashburton and Methodist Synod Timaru. Says retired to Methven for four to five years, then moved to Ashburton. Refers to son Colin Lill taking over the farm. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016757 - OHC-016759 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textural files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6032, OHDL-001827. Search dates: 1921 - 2007

Date: 1900 - 1969

Reference: Eph-B-SHEARING-1900/1969

Description: Includes: 1910: Levin and Company Ltd. Lister sheep-shearing machine. Illustrated catalogue no 6. All previous lists cancelled. [1909-1910]. 1935: Cooper Engineering Company (NZ) Ltd. Cooper combs, Cooper cutters [ca 1935]. Flyer Cooper Engineering Co. This E-B handpiece cuts shearing costs [ca 1935]. Flyer Cooper Engineering Coy (NZ) Ltd. Estimate for Cooper Master model friction gear sheep shearing plant. 1 July 1935. Flyer 1963: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears Royal Invitation Shearing Carnival in honour of the visit of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. Fraser Park Lower Hutt, 11 February 1963. Programme 1966: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears international shearing championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 2-5 March 1966. Programme 1968: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears international shearing championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 27 February - 2 March 1968. Programme Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, November 2022; 1961: International Shearing Championship Society. Golden Shears international shearing and wool handling championships. War Memorial Stadium Masterton, 9-11 March 1961. Programme.

Date: 1902

By: Reid & Gray Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-MACHINERY-1902-01

Description: Price list for farm machinery and other agricultural supplies. Includes illustrations of products including: harrows, baling presses, barbed wire, seed sowers, pumps, chaffcutters, ploughs, drills, wheels, straw elevators, engines, mills, garden chairs, knife grinders, rabbit traps, steam engines, seed drills, windmill towers, wagons, winnowing machines, yokes, wire netting, etc. Many pages are chewed around the edges. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 78 pages, each 277 x 213 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2004.