Walnut
McWhannell album 27
Date: 1985
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-q-280
Description: Photographs of family and friends, taken by Rhoda McWhannell, and some by Keith Orange (the husband of Rhoda McWhannell's niece Sally Pat (nee McCurdie)). A series of scenes show Mavis Commons in her home and garden at Cambridge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown vinyl cover, with embossed kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30.0 x 35.6 cm
Nests, tree flowers and foliage etc. chiefly taken in the vicinity of Rozel, the farm, ...
Date: Between 1958 and 1960
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA12-8834
Description: Nests of hedge sparrows (one abandoned), goldfinch, linnet, fantail, blackbird, and lark, most of the images showing eggs in the nests. The second sequence shows tree flowers and foliage, bark and berries. These include a black walnut tree, liriondendron blooms, idesia berries, redwood trees in Rotorua, tristania conferta bloom, the bark of a eucalyptus tree, chestnuts, acacia blossom, and abies firma flowers (a Japanese fir tree at Cambridge). Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm
Trees
Date: Between 1954 and 1984
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA12-8852
Description: This sheet of slides is entitled "Trees". It includes images of acacia nobilis; Judas trees at Rozel; eucalyptus varieties grandis, microcorys and maculosa at Rozel; eucalyptus seedlings and "Mac's nursery" (i.e. Mac McWhannell's tree nursery at Ohaupo); a melia azedarach tree; kauri wood; kauri seed; a tree at Waipoua Forest Park; sowing kauri at Waipoua; the Waipoua nursery; one kauri, two branching kauris; green kauri cones; trees at Rozel; black walnut trees; and two views of ginkgo seeds in flesh at Rozel. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm
Interview with Margaret Matheson
Date: 14 Aug 1997
From: A taste of gold oral history project
By: Matheson, Margaret, 1954-
Reference: OHInt-0446-10
Description: Margaret Matheson was born in Greymouth in 1954. Describes her property near Alexandra between Taylor's orchard and Earnscleugh Station where she lives in a one hundred year old house built by Andreas Iversen. Gives details of the property's previous owners including Mon McGinnis. Describes how the property is too small for apricots to be a viable crop and it was planted with walnut trees for the nut crop and for the wood. Discusses pruning, pests, frost and cultivation. Comments on the labour intensive nature of walnuts as a crop. Mentions that sorting, drying and opening the nuts is done by hand. Describes the huge walnut tree planted in the early 1860s beside the cottage which the Iversen family originally lived in. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Gough Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008567 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2669.
Cows under a walnut tree
Date: [1950s]
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-091573-F
Description: Cows standing under a walnut tree photographed by Robert E Wells at Lepperton probably in the late 1950s. Caption - Lepperton - C.C. outing - cows under walnut tree [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Three lambs under a walnut tree, Raorikia
Date: [late 1930s]
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-091757-F
Description: Three lambs standing under a walnut tree at Raorikia photographed by Robert E Wells, probably in the late 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Cows under walnut trees
Date: [1950s]
From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand
Reference: 1/4-091574-F
Description: Cows standing under walnut trees photographed by Robert E Wells at Lepperton probably in the late 1950s. Caption - Lepperton - C.C. outing - cows under walnut tree [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches