Ngakawau

Date: ca1900-1956

By: Bailey, Colin Lennie, 1906-1997; Bailey, Sue, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-6025

Description: Views of Westport, Denniston, Blackball, Ngakawau, Millerton, Inangahua Junction, Seddonville, Dunedin, Gore, Milford Sound, Greymouth and Taupo Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 12 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. Provenance: The late Professor C L Bailey, from the VUW Department of Education, collected photographs and other items relating to New Zealand history from members of the public.

Date: ca1940

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-03

Description: Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 10 Jun 2003

From: We call it home; State Housing history project

By: Fitzsimmons, Catherine Murray, 1914-2006

Reference: OHInt-0872-05

Description: Interview with Catherine Fitzsimmons, born in Scotland in 1914. Talks about her parents Tom and Catherine Carroll emigrating to New Zealand in 1923 and settling in Stockton where her father was a miner. Refers to her mother running a boarding house, and working for her without pay after she left school at 13. Outlines getting married to Harry Fitzsimmons in 1940, and her husband buying a house in Stockton. Describes having to move to Ngakawau in 1957, to a state house that their doctor helped arrange for them, and her feelings about the house. Comments on the house being too small, and her parents living with them. Refers to bedrooms like little boxes, the kitchen being too small for congregating, and the fight to get an inside toilet. Comments on the community hall, swimming pool, sports teams and pub. Mentions renovations to the house, and the effects of market rents in the 1990s. Refers to her father, mother, husband and eldest sister all dying in the 1960s. Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015636 - OHC-015637 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.27 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5612. Search dates: 1914 - 2003

Date: 11 February 1914 - 12 March 1914 - 23 December 1919 - 20 April 1923 - 1 July 1957 - 8 July 1957 - 16 December 1957

From: Thompson, Charles Herbert, 1890-1969: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-12180-1

Description: Folder of papers relating to mines and mining, comprising: - Report on Mount Radiant Mine, typescript by James Park, Professor of Mining Engineering, University of Otago, dated 11 February 1914. - Testimonial for Thompson, by R R Morrison, the manager of 'The Blackwater Mines Limited' mining company, dated 12 March 1914, on letterhead. - Printed 'Prospectus of the Westport-Charming Creek Coal and Timber Company, Limited', dated 1919. - Typescript headed 'The Westport-Stockton Coal Company Limited', dated Ngakawau, 20 April 1923. - Correspondence and balance sheet relating to 'The Stockton Co-operative Association Limited', including letters from John Lavery to Thompson, dated 1 July 1957, and 8 July 1957, relating to shares held by Thompson in the company liquidated in 1957. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, typescript, and printed matter.

Date: [ca 1929]

From: Thompson, Charles Herbert, 1890-1969: Papers

Reference: MapColl-834.1gc/[1929]/Acc.56119

Description: Plan of Application for Grazing License Block II Ngakawau Survey District. Shows section of Westport-Stockton Coal Company's Tramway. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on tracing linen, 23.5 x 28 cm.

Date: 1975, 1978, 1980, date unknown

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

Reference: PA12-11677

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Most slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: ca 1925

By: Buller Progress League

Reference: PAColl-7347

Description: Printed photographs (page numbers in the book given) of cleared land with dead trees and cars on the road captioned "Corby-vale a resting place on the way to Karamea" (p.29); Buller Hospital, Westport and Denniston Hospital (p.12); Chief Post Office, Westport (p.14); general view of sluicing claim, Charleston (p.18); bins and power house of Westport-Stockton Coal Co. and bridge, Ngakawau (p.22); and a view on Mokihinui River, Seddonville (p.27). There should also be prints of Charleston open face coal field (p.17), the power house and trolly line at Denniston (p.15), Westport from the Denniston zigzag (p.19), Stockton electric tram (p.21), and Karamea Road and Te Namu, a way-side post office on the Karamea Road (p.28). These prints have yet to be located. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negative at 1/2-003614 Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Printed photographs from "Book of Views Westport and Buller District" issued by Buller Progress League

Date: 27 Jan 1986

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: O'Gorman, Ellen Catherine, 1891-1992

Reference: OHInt-0070/26

Description: Ellen O'Gorman outlines family background, education, childhood at Addisons on West Coast of South Island, hotel as family business, appointment to Addisons Post Office as postmistress, need for accuracy in work, daily routine, telephone, mail routine, telegrams, salary, delivering telegrams, work as postmistress at Ngakawau Post Office in 1912, describes town, the Stockton mine, social life, salary, Ngakawau Telephone Exchange, daily routine, accidents at the mine, social life, lighting, security, pensions. Describes move to Wellington in ca 1914, work as waitress at Trocadero Private Hotel, reasons for not continuing with post office work, marriage, post office as a career in retrospect, work with St Vincent de Paul Society. Venue - Lower Hutt Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - 1A Tocker Street, Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001255 - OHC-001256 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 163. Search dates: 1891 - 1986

Date: [ca 1915-1921]

From: Thompson, Charles Herbert, 1890-1969: Papers

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbc/[1915-1921]/Acc.56121

Description: 'Plan Showing Methods of Transporting Coal from Stockton Mine to Ngakawau - Old Method by Electric Tramway and Gravity Inclines. New Method by Water in Fluming. Length of Main Flume Approx[imately] 5 1/2 Miles', by Charles Herbert Thompson. Photographic copy of map with manuscript colouring and annotations. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Base map on photographic paper with colouring and annotations in ink, 17.3 x 35.4 cm.

Date: [ca 1912]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000739-G

Description: View of `Binns' at Ngakawau taken from the bridge across the river. Possibly a coal handling facility and power house. Photograph taken by William A Price, in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - `Binns Ngakawau'. 2103B William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28420-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: [191-?]

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-006439-G

Description: Coal mining and sawmilling settlement of Ngakawau, Buller district. Ngakawau River, and bridge, on right. Railway in foreground. Photograph taken circa 1910s by Frederick George Radcliffe. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer (Note: This item, and corresponding date, not listed in Radcliffe register compiled by Stan R Goodwin) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - centre left - Ngakawau NZ 1919 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28421-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: [191-?]

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-006741-G

Description: Ngakawau railway station and train, Buller district. Photograph taken circa 1910s by Frederick George Radcliffe. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date estimated by cataloguer (Note: This item, and corresponding date, not listed in Radcliffe register compled by Stan R Goodwin) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Railway Station, Ngakawau, 1919 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 21 Jan 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-49005-F

Description: Aerial view of the settlement of Ngakawau and the Ngakawau River, Buller district. Includes the river mouth and coastline alongside. Photograph taken 1 January 1959 by Whites Aviation. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print and negative sleeve. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.5 x 13.9 cm

Date: 21 Jan 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-49004-F

Description: Aerial view of the settlement of Ngakawau, Buller district. Shows the coastline. Ngakawau River in centre. Photograph taken 1 January 1959 by Whites Aviation. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print and negative sleeve. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 12.9 x 13.8 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder: Blue 309.