Temuka

Date: Nov 1988

By: Wells, Stanley Peter, 1920?-; McAlpine, Rachel Phyllis, 1940-

Reference: OHColl-0277/1

Description: Stan Wells recalls being sent by Ada Wells to a Salvation Army orphanage for boys in Temuka when he was six. Describes the few privilages, the starvation diet, no play and the work. Explains having his name changed. Recalls corporal punishments. Talks of his sister Alice known as Bim, sister Edna, also the few women who sheltered him. Talks of money provided by the Masons' Lodge for upkeep of this once grand home and its deterioration. Recalls having top marks in drawing and talks of his inability to play cricket or rugby at school later. Describes memorable days when the boys were allowed out of the orphanage. Explains about his holidays in Oamaru, meeting the Fergusons with whom he went to live, the servant - master relationship with Mr. Ferguson. Discusses similarities in the personalities of Harry Wells and Mr. Ferguson, an organist, and talks about their purchase of an organ. Discusses differenes in attitudes between Hazel Armstrong, who took an interest in him, and Mrs Ferguson. Talks about his work as a 15 year old on a farm at Wanganui, his work on a poultry farm with poor pay, and the cost of meals. Describes his jobs as a gardener. Explains that Bim's work was as a masseuse, also a compiler for Stone's Directory, and relates that she cycled to the West Coast during the Depression. Recalls his schooling, going to war in Egypt in artillery and infantry units, his treatment as a prisoner of war when he worked in coalmine and on a railway. Explains that he was sent to a nursery garden in Temuka on his return. Describes his psychiatric treatment after the war, spending time at Hanmer and names Dr. Bevan Brown, Frank Cook, Len Booth. Talks about religion. Describes visiting Ratana Pa, Wanganui and mentions successful health treatments there. Explains about his love of native bush. Recalls Frank Milner of Waitaki School. Talks of cycling, piano playing and his appreciation of music. Relates about girlfriends, his wife and children. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Christchurch Abstracted by - Linda Bevan Smith Interviewer(s) - Rachel McAlpine Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002857; 002858; 002859 Quantity: 3 C90 cassette(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3852. Search dates: 1920 - 1960

Date: 1976 - 1989 - 1984 - 1997

By: Trevor Griffiths Roses (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-GriffithsT

Description: Sales catalogues listing rose plants for sale. Years held are: 1976 1977 1980 (2 copies) 1981 1982 1984 1984/1985 1989? 1993? 1996? 1997 Quantity: 10 catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets sizes around 230 x 145 mm. Provenance: Some catalogues purchased from Arnold Books (Christchurch) in 2003; some donated by Mr Donal Duthie, Wellington, in 2005 one from the estate of Margaret Barker, 2013.

Date: ca 1920

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

Reference: PAColl-7081-95

Description: The Technical and Main Schools in Temuka. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Reference: PAColl-6338

Description: Postcards of King Street, Temuka; Invercargill Railway Station; the water tower and pumping station in Invercargill; Dee Street, Invercargill; Invercargill Hospital; the botanical gardens in Invercargill; Dunedin from Bell Hill, passengers on the Waikare just before the shipwreck; an elevated view of Clyde; the shelter on Stop Island built by the passengers of the Waikare after the shipwreck; Waratah and Mt Bischoff, Tasmania; Magnet Mine ore shed, Tasmania; fountain in Princes Square, Launceston, Tasmania; and a river near Latrobe, Tasmania. Photographer for some of the images was Muir & Moodie. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 b&w copy negative(s) of Dunedin from Bell Hill. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) postcard.

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-074832-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Circa 1900 to 1905

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-295

Description: Album of photographs, probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly taken on a tour around the South Island. The first images relate to an area around Wellington, including Waiwhetu and Wainuiomata, including scenes of the Wainuiomata Reservoir. Two photographs taken in a park show three women wearing hats, full-length outfits, and carrying umbrellas, the "McNabs". One photograph shows a group of men and women, members of a camera club. The tour aound the South Island travels from Sheffield, down to the Otira Gorge, up to Lake Brunner and Inangahua, past Murchison, through Longford. In Wellington Harbour the steamship Ophir is sailing out, with people standing on the wharf in the foreground. Also in Wellington, is a large group portrait of men associated with the Missions to Seamen, gathered together on Labour Day 1901. Five photographs are taken around Otaki, one a pastoral scene, and two of three young Maori people (a young woman and a young girl in two scenes, with a second young girl in the third scene); a water mill; and a group of four people having a picnic in a field (two women (one obscured) and a young boy on the left, and a man with a bandaged hand on the right). The last few scenes are again of the South Island, at Temuka, Otago Harbour, Dunedin (including the Octagon), and a tram belonging to the Roslyn Tramway Company with a group of men on the front cab, and three standing in front. Inscriptions: Album page - G W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1870

Reference: MS-Papers-2667

Description: Also stamp postmarked Temuka, Jan 1 1870 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-215

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1939-1940. Karangarua River bridge; Rakaia River bridge; market gardens in Heathcote Valley; Palmerston North library; Old English Fair held in Dunedin in aid of the patriotic funds; new Gisborne Intermediate School; Archbishop Julius Memorial stone; Auckland's Patriotic Queen Carnival; model of HMS Rodney; giant pipe cast by Public Works Department for pipeline at headworks of the mid-Canterbury irrigation scheme; Garden Place Hill earthworks at Hamilton; hop picking, Riwaka Valley; new friary built for the Brothers of St Francis at Hillsborough, Auckland; construction of tunnels and power house for hydro-electric works at Tuai, Waikaremoana; opening of Horowhenua College, Levin; demolition of wing at Nelson College; floating pontoon being lowered into position at Mechanics Bay; tram cars converted into homes. Construction of Centennial Drive, Kapiti Coast; new Hamiltion General Post Office; construction of Wellington Harbour Board cargo shed; opening of Catholic church at Georgetown, Invercargill; shoe-cleaner at Lincoln College; view of Waikanae Beach from Kaiti Hill, Gisborne; road works north of Gisborne; Railway Bus Terminus, Dunedin (opposite Queens Gardens); Dunedin Emergency Transport Organisation practising arm signals. Race-goers at Wellington Racing Club meeting, and at Canterbury Jockey Club & NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club meeting at Christchurch. Landslide at a Brighton farm; construction of the Pokeno-Paeroa line; laying of the foundation stone of building in Stout Street by Minister of Public Worls, Hon R Semple. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1928

From: Field, Robert Nettleton, 1899-1987 :[Collection of sketches, 1926 to 1961]

Reference: A-265-003

Description: House and outbuilding set amongst trees with hills and mountains behind. Epworth Farm, near Temuka was the home of Marion Campbell Iverach (Field's wife). They were married on 3 Jan 1828. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title in pencil. Also top right, date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 175 x 250 mm

Date: 2002

By: New Zealand Film Archive

Reference: Eph-D-CINEMA-2002-01

Description: Shows a strip of film from "Temuka; scenes in and around Beautiful Temuka" (1926). Sponsors' names along the lower edge include: The Film Archive, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Arts Centre of the Christchurch Theatre Trust; Creative New Zealand; and the Fringe Kakano Fund NZ. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 590 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Embassy Theatre in 2003.

Date: [ca 1903]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-f-195-76

Description: Scenes in Christchurch, Temuka and Mount Roskill, taken by unidentified photographers The upper photograph (PA1-f-195-76-1) shows a group at the back of a grand stand in Christchurch, circa 1903. The middle photograph (PA1-f-195-76-2) is a group portrait taken in Temuka, circa 1903. Lord and Lady Ranfurly are 3rd and 5th from the left respectively. Dudley Henry Alexander is on the far right. The lower, left photograph (PA1-f-195-76-3) and the lower, right photograph (PA1-f-195-76-4) depict the laying of the foundation stone for the Ranfurly Veteran's home, in Mount Roskill, Auckland, in 1903. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Four photographic prints mounted on album page, 416 x 286 mm (page size)

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1920

By: New Zealand Railways. Christchurch Section; Alex Wildey Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ROYAL-1920-05

Description: Booklet contains two publications: New Zealand Railways. Christchurch District. Visit of HRH The Prince of Wales to Christchurch, May 13th to 16th, 1920. Races at Christchurch, May 15th 1920 (26 pages) New Zealand Railways. Christchurch District. Visit of HRH The Prince of Wales to Ashburton, Temuka, Timaru and Oamaru, May 17th 1920 [and] Departure of HRH The Prince of Wales from Lyttelton, May 21st 1920. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 26 and 16 pages, each 260 x 195 mm, inside purple suede cover 272 x 205 mm, with gilt lettering. Accompanying original envelope Provenance: Donated by Mr R Waters, 1980. Accompanying envelope is addressed to the Prince of Wales, per favour R W McVilly, esq, General Manager, New Zealand Railways. Presumably it was never presented; or else presented and abandoned.

Date: [Between 1922 and 1935]

By: Clarke, Charles Edward, active 1925-1952

Reference: PA1-o-378

Description: Album of photographs relating to members of the Student Christian Movement in New Zealand who attended conferences and camps between 1922 and 1935. The only person identified in captions was Dr John Raleigh Mott, an American who was closely involved with establishing the Student Christian Movement all around the world, and who attended the New Zealand leaders' conference at Waikanae in 1926. Two others have been identified by a family friend. They are the Rev. Herbert Newell, and Eaton Hurley. Conferences and camps were held all over New Zealand, including Ashburton (1922-23); Solway (1923-24, and 1926-27); Waimate (1924-25); Cambridge (1925-26); Dr. Mott's leaders' conference at Waikanae (1926); Brighton, Hutt Park and Campbell's Bay (all held in 1927); Campbell's Bay and Brighton (in 1928); Feilding (1930-31, and 1934-35); Bombay (1932-33); and Geraldine (1933-34). There are also photographs of the World Student Christian Federation Conference in Java in 1933. Other - Slips have been inserted identifying the two additional named members Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album of mushroom coloured textured pages, tied with ribbon (no cover); 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 1926

From: Field, Robert Nettleton, 1899-1987 :[Collection of sketches, 1926 to 1961]

Reference: A-265-005

Description: Landscape with cattle grazing in foreground on the left. Trees and hills in the background, and an impression of a mountain range in the far distance [pink wash]. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title, date and initials in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 250 mm

Date: [ca 1941]

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8988

Description: Photograph of Temuka Public Works Department camp, Canterbury, taken ca 1941 by an unidentified photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - top left - P.W.D. Camp Temuka. S. Canterbury. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6.8 x 11.1 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1564 : Mackrell, Brent : Flight logbooks of R E Priest and J H Platt.

Date: ca 1875-1880

Reference: PAColl-7415

Description: Photographs of the Royal Hotel with men on the pavement outside the Commercial Rooms; the Crown Hotel; and a welcome archway and party including armed constables for the visit of Sir George Grey next to the Temuka Foundry owned by K F Gray. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004208 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1868 - 1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f

Description: A few British and European scenes. The remainder show Lake Wanaka, Nelson, Timaru, Bluff, Dusky and Doubtful Sounds, Chalky Inlet, Lake Waihola and numerous other South Island scenes; Wellington, Napier, Rotorua, Bay of Islands Title from spine Inscriptions: Some signed: K.H. ; K. Holmes Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour drawings 145 p. 290 x 490 mm ¼ red morocco, red linen

Date: 1910-1913

By: Meredith, George Richard, 1834-1909

Reference: MS-Papers-1364

Description: Meredith describes his life on clipper ships before deserting to follow the goldrush in Victoria, coming to Otago in 1855 and settling in the Temuka district where he farmed and was involved with sawmilling, road building, lime burning. Some family information. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript (photocopies)

Reference: 1/2-055163-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).