Lighthouses - New Zealand

Date: 3 May 1998 - 06 May 1998

By: Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-; Kemp, William Darcie, 1926-

Reference: OHColl-0723-1

Description: Bill Kemp, born 1926 Stoke, Nelson, talks about his life and career in the Lighthouse service. Talks about his family; grandfather William Westrupp was a sea captain. Refers to ships Lily, Ivy, Patina and shipwrecks at Waiatapu, Collingwood, and D'Urville Island. Mentions father John Benjamin Darcie Kemp (John Kemp) wounded at Plug Street Wood - World War I, and paternal grandfather Benjamin Darcie Kemp of Harley's Breweries in Nelson. Talks about Bootmaking Trade. Discusses father's work at Ngawatu and Tokanui mental hospitals. Describes mental hospital conditions. Talks about grandmother and mother's oath against drinking and smoking, and grandmother Westrupp's prayers - lost son Walter Westrupp at Gallipoli. Mentions Royal Theatre, Nelson (Cinema). Describes mother Annie Westrupp - attitude to religion. Relates being caught smoking behind the organ. Talks about corporal punishment and Rev Charlie Bedwell. Recalls Stoke School 1931-1939, teachers Messers Norris and Thorby, and religious instruction. Talks about The Depression on family farm at Wakatu; Ted Morgan, winner of first Olympic Gold for New Zealand (Boxing). Notes stayed and worked with wrestler Lofty Bloomfield at the mental hospital. Talks about boxing and wrestling at school. Explains leaving school at 13 and mentions father's shift to Te Awamutu. Recalls Nelson Boy's College, teacher Herbert Tankersley, later Mayor of Masterton. Talks about employment: message boy (morse code) for Post Office then deck boy on scows Echo, Kohi, Talisman, Sidi Mai Failte. Joined Seamen's Union. Recalls Captain Jack Reeves - daughter Glenda Reeves married Bill Rowling; Captain Eckford, and the ship Pamir. Describes a trip up Wairau River in the Echo. Talks about wife and children. Talks about Greymouth, Union Steamship Company, Lane Walker Rudkin, ship Gabriella and working as a Bosun (Boatswain) on the Karipo. Describes application to the Lighthouse Service after an honourable discharge from the sea. Talks about the 1951 Waterfront Strike. Mentions working in mines as wirer splicer, recalls Strongman Mine Accident. Mentions father-in-law Willy Jones, miner and ship deserter. Discusses commencement of career as a lighthouse keeper, beginning with job interview with Eric Martin and Patrick O'Halloran, Secretary of Marine, and appointment to Puysegur Point Lighthouse. Recalls wife's reaction; journey on ship Wairua (Captain Ian Williams). Talks about conditions, facitities, duties at Puysegur point and geographical position. Relates how an earlier light was burnt down by a mentally affected goldminer, Lance Thomas. Mentions other personnel: Noel Frew, Bob Walsh, and the Newmans. Recalls climate and sandflies and attitude of wife and children. Mentions leisure activities: DXing (Ham radio), calls from 2UE Sydney, calls wife while giving birth. Describes routine at Puysegur including weather roster and maintenance. Talks of the only 2 people nearby, miners Jules Berg and Tim Smith. Describes routine tasks with light. Explains fire danger, alarm procedure, life of bulb, use of curtains etc. Describes light mechanism, French: Barbier Finisterre, mechanics by Stephenson's (Robert Louis Stephenson's family). Describes weather patterns; recalls a cow being blown off a cliff. Talks about medical care and evacuation procedure, graves at the landing, fire at Cape Saunders. Says people died in the early days due to lack of ammenities and isolation. Notes lighthouse Vessels Hinemoa, Tutanekai and Matai went round New Zealand every 3 months. Later everyone taught first aid. Explains routine for wife giving birth in Greymouth. Describes holidays - relieved by single men from Brothers Lighthouse. Recalls death of colleague's child, and effect on him. Talks about subsequent posts, first moving to Waipapa Point Lighthouse (1955-1958). Describes location, shipwreck and talks about Stewart Island, the Bluff and Invercargill. Compares climate, saying Waipapa Point Lighthouse easier to run. Describes being offered position at Cape Reinga Lighthouse. Talks about people at Cape Reinga: Ted Henarae, Ken Wood. Describes how Minister for Marine, Bill Fox, arranged for a school and a teacher. Mentions teachers including Brownie Henana. Says local Maori have given dispensation for his ashes to be scattered off Cape Reinga, and close relations with Te Hapua Maori. Talks of Te Ringa Wairua, sacred territory. Talks about conditions for Cape Maori, mentions Matt Rata, Jim Pou and Sir Tui Carroll. Describes Cape weather, recalls second lowest New Zealand barometer reading, storms, and own weather reports to shipping - had to get a Weather Office dispensation. Recalls tug Atlas, ship Wanganella and Captain Alec Bibenstein. Mentions other keepers: Ted Henare, Bob Wallace, Ken Woods, and Brian Mason. Talks about visitors: Robert Muldoon, Sir Leon Gotz, Rhondda Kemp and Walter Nash. Mentions practical jokes, Mike Boyd and Bernie Hill. Says Cape Reinga difficult to run because of visitors, and defines a good lighthouse keeper. Describes telegram procedure and talks about Akaroa Lighthouse, most difficult post. Talks about Centre Island lighthouse and keepers who disappeared while fishing. Describes his time at Baring Head Lighthouse: 1962-68, government took tourists there. Describes work routines there. Talks about Ororongorongo station, seismograph, clothing worn - no uniform and lighthouse inspections every year by Phil Gamby. Describes role of lighthouse inspector 1968-1980. Talks about near accident of ship Aramoana, recalls opinion of ship's architect Hewlett Jones. Talks about Wahine disaster. Talks about interviewing for staff. Recalls feelings on time in the Lighthouse Service, thinks lighthouse children have done well - mentions own children. Talks about superstitions among lighthouse staff - many ex-seamen . Says there were no drownings during time as an inspector, describes safety regulations. Recalls reunion of lighthouse keepers in 1990. Says demanning a mistake, refering to Stephens Island, refers to user pays mentality, ship owners paying light dues. Access Contact - Oral History Curator Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011230 - OHC-011232 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3933. facsm. of Maternal Grandfather's certificate of service as master of vessel. Lens Drum, Fixed Lens, Revolving Bullseye Lenses (facsm.) Search dates: 1926 - 1998

Date: 8 July 2005 to 13 September 2007 - 08 Jul 2004 - 13 Sep 2007

By: Beaglehole, Helen Elizabeth, 1946-

Reference: OHColl-0789

Description: Interviews with lighthouse keepers and some of their wives, covering their experiences dealing with the issues of daily life, changes in technology over time, the isolation of their location and the difficulties that presented at times and settling back into mainstream life, when their tenure was completed. The interviewees are Leslie and Josphine Broom, Jean Kroening, George Kroening, Barry Langman, Alan Martin, Shirley Martin, William Megennis, Victor Pullen, Christopher Staley, Marita Taylor, Peter Taylor and Alan Wright. The Department of Conservation Southland - Lighthouse Service project (OHInt-0960-02) has six related interviews. Abstracted by - Helen Beaglehole Awards/funding - Project received an Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Helen Beaglehole Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013297 - OHC-013318, OHC-014563 - OHC-014567, OHC-016100 - OHC-016105 Quantity: 33 C60 cassette(s). 11 printed abstract(s). 4 transcript(s) partial transcripts. 12 interview(s) - one interview is a joint interview. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Processing information: Interviews not yet described: Marita Taylor (OHA-5805; OHC-016100 - OHC-016102), Peter Taylor (OHA-5806; OHC-016103 - OHC-016105)

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-299

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s-1900s. Most of the scenes are taken on a river boat trip up the Whanganui River, and include two of groups of Maori; one showing two nuns in full habit, walking behind three young Maori girls who are wearing ankle-length dresses. Some of the river scenes show stretches of the river, including several `on the rapids', and one of a group of men in a waka. Others are of the various villages passed on the trip, including one of the river boat tied up at Jerusalem, with a cart drawn by two horses alongside. One view shows the mouth of the Whanganui River at Patea, and from there the images are of the New Plymouth area, including Mount Taranaki (then Mount Egmont), the Sugar Loaves, the monument to Wiremu Tamati on the hill at Corbett Park (Oakura), and Opunake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographs'; McIntosh XV, 15 765-814; 16 x 22 cm

Date: 1896-1977

By: Hall, George Patterson, 1875-1958

Reference: MS-Group-1848

Description: Comprise personal and employment papers and certificates, tracing his career as a ship's officer, to his later employment in New Zealand with the Marine Department. Includes family tree and copies of photographs. Also draft articles on shipping matters, printed matter and a notebook of memoranda detailing lighthouses, landings and anchorages around the New Zealand coast Source of title - Supplied by Library Captain Hall signed on as an officer in the merchant marine, with his home port at Swansea, UK; after some years whaling around the New Zealand coast, he joined the Marine Department in Wellington, rising to be Superintendant of Mercantile Marine. Being interested in maritime history, he collected and wrote on maritime topics Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, printed matter Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2010 Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, auction, 2010 Transfers: From Photographic Archive - Large collection of Hall's pghotographs also purchased; they are held with the Photographic Archive.

Date: [196-]

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11689

Description: Letter from Inez Elliot to Eileen Tiller (ca 1960s), which describes family life in the various lighthouses Elliot grew up in around New Zealand as a child during the early part of the Twentieth Century. She recalls stories of childhood activities, weather storms, the First World War, visits from launches and mentions a shipwreck off Cape Brett. Inez Elliot's parents were lighthouse keepers at various lighthouses around New Zealand. Title transcribed from item. Relationship complexity - Photographs relating to the lighthouse at Cape Brett accompany the donation of this letter and are in the Photographic Archive is Series-6581. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 11 Feb 1992, 13 Feb 1992, 17 Feb 1992 - 11 Feb 1992 - 17 Feb 1992

From: Hobson Wharf Auckland Maritime Museum Oral History Project

By: Daniel, Barney Thomas, 1911-1997

Reference: OHInt-0332-06

Description: Outlines life as young man and maritime experiences. Talks in detail about family. Details life of great grandfather John James Stanaway, the first registered New Zealand harbour pilot in 1858. Backgrounds father's maritime career mentioning the Hokianga lighthouse and signal station. Discusses rope construction career, oyster production, boat builder Jack Guard, the French Pass ferry service during the 1930's, cattle barges and the Union Company. Outlines employment with the Wellington Harbour Board. Talks about rubbish disposal. Details the Port of Wellington and shipwrighting including building of barges and ships for the armed services. Depicts shipwright industry during the 1940s and the fall off in coastal trade. Discusses the Waterfront Strike, 1951. Remembers the Wahine disaster at Wellington Heads in 1968. Discusses in depth the sinking of the ferry and helping to rescue passengers. Mentions rescue vessels the Success, the Tina, the Arahina and the Marlyn. Describes the Wahine and salvage operations. Depicts life on the Chatham Islands and Pitt Island in 1932 sketching the physical details and describing the inhabitants, community life, transport, occupations and Chatham Island cod. Ships mentioned include: the Tiroa, the Kawhai, the Kohi, the Freedom (previously the Anzac), the Nora, the Matangi, the Arahura, the Whakanui, the Kohi, the Pearl Casper, the Golden Light, the Star of the East, the Margarita, the Tramp, the Ranger, the Waiiti, the Vesper, the Sonia Kay, the Taotane, the Miro and the Hualalai. Interviewer(s) - Peter McCurdy Interviewer(s) - Gillian Chaplin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013020, OHC-013021, OHC-013022, OHC-013023, OHC-013024 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4522 contains abstract and partial transcript.

Date: 1862-[ca 2005]

From: Tiller, Eileen, active 1957-2014: Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Hinemoa (Ship : 1876-1944); Meluish, William, 1822?-1888; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Schaef, Arthur Waldemar, 1867-1940

Reference: PAColl-10718

Description: Contains photographs relating to the Hansen family, circa 1862 to 1990s. Taken by Hansen family members and photographers including Frank Arnold Coxhead, Fredrick George Radcliffe, Arthur Waldemar Schaef, William Meluish, and Burton Brothers. A commercial set of "New Zealand Graphic Series" stereoscopic prints shows a trip down the Whanganui River and the town of Whanganui. These are taken by Fredrick George Radcliffe with the exception of one photograph by Arthur Waldemar Schaef. The collection also contains a stereoscopic print titled "Milford Sound Starvation" by the Burton Brothers showing two men posed with empty barrels and an empty bottle on the rocky shore at Milford Sound. Photographs by Frank Arnold Coxhead show numerous views of Puyseger Point and its surrounds including Preservation Inlet. Futher nineteenth century prints include photographs, largely taken in Fiordland and the Otago Region, of landscapes (including Milford Sound, Dunedin gardens and coast, and Lake Wakatipu and surrounding peaks) and buildings in Dunedin (Garrison Hall, Knox Church, First Church, and Royal Exchange Hotel). There are also photographs of roading (Otira Gorge, Hokitika Road), railways (Rimutaka Incline), and an unidentified shepherd with his dog and herd of sheep. Other photographs include a William Meluish photograph of the goldrush at Gabriel's Gully, Tuapeka, taken in 1862. There are photographs relating to roads, railways, buildings, mainly in the Otago Region Assorted family prints from circa 1900s to 1930s include a photograph of Anders Hansen on board the government steamer 'Hinemoa' and further photographs taken on board the 'Hinemoa'. Other identified Hansen family members are George and Annie Hansen, who are also photographed on board a ship, which is likely bound for the Auckland Islands circa 1925. Other photographs relating to boats and shipping include row boats and small steamers on the water [delivering supplies from lighthouse tenders?] and wool being loaded into barges at a coastal woolshed and wharf. Photographs from the Wellington Region show Eastbourne and Wellington Harbour scenes. Photographs relating to a coastal farm, possibly Orongorongo Station, feature farm buildings, an unidentified group of three women and a boy riding in a cart drawn by a draught horse with another saddled horse behind, and two men shooting and bludgeoning a shark on the rocky shore. There is also a photograph of an unidentified wedding party. Two photographs from circa 1990s to 2005 show carved greenstone and bone Māori artefacts, collected by Anders Hansen and his family when he was the lighthouse keeper at Little Papanui on the Otago Peninsula. A Hansen family trip to Rarotonga and Aitutaki in 1977 includes photographs of accommodation (a resort, Rapae Motel) and other buildings, beach scenes, vehicles (bus, cars, motorcycle, tractor), a variety of flora (trees, flowers, and other plants), a waterfront scene, thatched roofs under construction, and local people (children by the road, women collecting water lilies, group selling produce). Identified buildings are Cook Island Liquor Supplies and a post office. Also photographs relating to Vaipae and the Ngatangiia Passage. Donor identified some images as being taken on a journey to the Auckland Islands. Greenstone and bone artifacts that appear in photographic prints are now at the Otago Museum. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). 54 colour original photographic print(s). 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) stereoscopic. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Photographic prints and ephemera. Provenance: Series of photographs by Frank Arnold Coxhead were given to Anders Hansen by the photographer while he was the lighthouse keeper at Puysegur Point circa 1880s to 1900s.

Date: Between 1915 and 1924

By: Buckland, Jessie Lillian, 1878-1939; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA1-o-261

Description: Photographs, some by identified photographers, chiefly relating to lighthouses in the South Island of New Zealand. Most of the signed photographs are dated between 1915 and 1919. The unsigned ones were taken in 1924, possibly during a trip to the lighthouses on the Government ship Tutanekai. Many of the images show aspects of life at remote sites, including travel by dinghy, transportation of cattle using slings to carry them from a ship to a dinghy and then to land, and picknicking on Stewart Island. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Lighthouses etc Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking covers; 24.5 x 31.5 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available

Date: 2003

By: Pearson, Jacky, active 2000s

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2003-05

Description: Calendar featuring paintings by Jacky Pearson, of thirteen New Zealand lighthouses, each with a short history. Locations include: Timaru Light (1878), Godley Head (1865), Baring Head (1935), Kaipara Harbour (1884), Portland Island (1878), Jacks Point, Taiaroa Head (1865), Karori Rock (1915), Kahurangi Light (1903), Tory Channel Leading Lights (1882), and Cape Foulwind (1926). June and July are misisng from this copy; they probably featured Mokohinau and Cape Foulwind (the text for Cape Foulwind is present, opposite the picture for Jack's Point which has no text) Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs on pages of calendar, each 280 x 353 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mary Newman, Wellington, in 2004.

Date: Between 1923 and 1932

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966

Reference: PA1-o-262

Description: Collection of photographs, most of which show aspects of yachting, chiefly in Wellington harbour. Most images are not identified in captions, except one page of a Tararua trip to Field Hut in May 1932 (p. 48); and one page of images of a young woman, entitled Savannah, Ill. 1923 and 1925. The boating views show yachts, yacht racing, sailors, coastline, and a lighthouse (several views). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-807

Description: A ship has hove to near a lighthouse and a man has chugged close to the lighthouse in a rubber dinghy to break the news to the lighthouse keeper that he has become redundant because of modern technology. The lighthouse keeper is astonished by the news and the official in the dinghy wonders where he has been for the last three years. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 320 x 485 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 13 Apr 1990 - 16 Apr 1990 - 13 Apr 1990 - 16 Apr 1990

From: Hobson Wharf Auckland Maritime Museum Oral History Project

By: Daniel, Paul, active 1990; Daniel, Marion, active 1990; Eagle, Elise, active 1990; Hosking, Rosalind, active 1990; Jackson, Samuel, active 1939-1990; McGregor, Carol, active 1959-2001; Miller, Norm, active 1990; Nicholls, Nic, active 1990; Ryan, Joyce, active 1990

Reference: OHInt-0332-19

Description: Topics discussed: education of lighthouse children, women and lighthouses, medical issues, food and trips for supplies, flag and Morse code signalling, the Murchison earthquake, tsunami, tuatara and wildlife, farming, impact of World War II, entertainment, hazards, climate and storms, surf boats, sealife sightings including dolphins, whales and sharks, modernisation of equipment, engineering maintenance, vessels in distress, foghorns, the Marine Department Training School, Australian lighthouses and community spirit. Mention Governor General Lord Porritt and Lady Porritt, Bill Kemp and Jack Ashford. Lighthouses and locations discussed: Stephens Island, Baring Head, the Nuggets, Cuvier Island, Puysegur Point, Brothers Island, Pencarrow Heads, Farewell Spit, Cape Pallier, Cape Maria van Diemen, Akaroa and Rodney Head, Cape Campbell, Portland Island, Adley Heads, Cape Saunders and Titiriri Matanga. Talk about ships including the Kotiti, the Talisman, the Matai, the Jane Gifford, the Willwatch, the Vesper, the Huia, the Niagara, the Awatea and the Kura. Interviewer(s) - John Riding Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013043, OHC-013044, OHC-013045 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4534.

Date: 20 Feb 1999

From: Department of Conservation Southland oral history projects

By: Bain, Angela, active 1999; Withington, Doreen, active 1960-1999

Reference: OHInt-0960-14

Description: Interviewer(s) - Angela Bain Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013007 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4512.

Date: 24 Feb 1999

From: Department of Conservation Southland oral history projects

By: Bain, Angela, active 1999; Pennell, Kevin, active 1960-1999

Reference: OHInt-0960-13

Description: Interviewer(s) - Angela Bain Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013006 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4511.

Date: 11 Mar 1999

From: Department of Conservation Southland oral history projects

By: Bain, Angela, active 1999; McArthur, Ernie W, active 1960-1999

Reference: OHInt-0960-10

Description: Interviewer(s) - Angela Bain Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013003 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4508.

Date: 1950s-2000

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

Reference: Series-6440-07

Description: Negatives, prints, and transparencies of industrial buildings and structures taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton, 1950s-2000. Includes photographs of flour mills, flax mills, sawmills, woollen mills, powerhouses, breweries, freezing works, wharf buildings, brickworks, gasworks, engineering workshops, lime kilns, hop kilns, lighthouses, and mine structures such as cyanide tanks, poppet heads, and coal bins. Date range is taken from the few dates annotated on the back of prints or on negative enclosures. There is another smaller sequence of industrial heritage negatives, transparencies, and prints at Librayr reference Series-6440-10 Bibliography - Thornton, Geoffrey G. 'New Zealand's Industrial Heritage', Wellington N.Z. : Reed, 1982. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Negatives, prints, and transparencies were generally, but not always, together in usually labelled glassine bags. The glassine bags were arranged mainly alphabetically by place name, in a small cardboard box, labelled "Industrial". Some bags held only negatives; a few held only prints or transparencies. Quantity: 476 b&w original negative(s). 324 b&w original photographic print(s). 48 colour original transparency/ies. 22 colour original photographic print(s). 20 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints separated from the negatives are at Library reference PAColl-10686-08 and PAColl-10686-09 - Transparencies are at Library references PA12-4282 to PA12-4284 and PA12-4380 to PA12-4382 Negatives are at Library references 1/4-136991-F to 137300-F, and 1/4-137386-F to 1/4-137573-F. Processing information: Negatives, prints were, and transparencies were separated and rehoused for reasons of preservation and appropriate storage. Not all names associated with this sub-series have been indexed.

Date: 1957-2004

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

Reference: Series-6440-11

Description: Negatives, prints, and transparencies of industrial buildings and structures taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton,1957 to 2004. Includes photographs of flour mills, woollen mills, breweries, wharf buildings, gasworks, hop kilns, lighthouses, water towers, and mine cyanide tanks. Also includes photographs of stables at Morven Hills in Lindis Valley, and a racecourse stand at Trentham. Date range is taken from the few dates annotated on the back of prints. It is likely that these items were extracted from a larger sequence of negatives, transparencies, and prints of industrial buildings and structures; see Library reference Series-6440-07 Bibliography - Thornton, Geoffrey G. 'New Zealand's Industrial Heritage', Wellington N.Z. : Reed, 1982. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Negatives, prints, and transparencies were generally, but not always, together in labelled glassine enclosures. The glassine enclosures were in a small chocolate box labelled "Industrial Heritage", in no particular order. Enclosures were labelled with the type of building/structure (and sometimes name of company/owner) on the left-hand side of the bag and the location on the right-hand side. Quantity: 41 b&w original negative(s). 35 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original transparency/ies. 2 colour original photographic print(s). 2 colour original negative(s). Transfers: Prints separated from the negatives are at Library reference PAColl-10686-10 - Separated transparencies are at Library reference PA12-4393 - Separated negatives are at Library references 1/4-137574-F to 137615-F. Processing information: Negatives, prints were, and transparencies were separated and rehoused for reasons of preservation and appropriate storage. Not all names associated with this sub-series have been indexed.

Date: [ca 1860s-2013]

By: Tiller, Eileen Mavis, active 1957-2014

Reference: ATL-Group-00334

Description: Contains material relating to the Hansen family with a focus on lighthouses, their surrounding environments, their history, and the Hansen's family's relationship to them, circa 1860 to 2013. Collected and compiled by Eileen M Tiller. The majority of the material in this collection is photographic. Identified photographers are Frank Arnold Coxhead, Fredrick George Radcliffe, Arthur Waldemar Schaef, William Meluish, Burton Brothers, and John Robert Hanna, and Eileen Tiller. Photographs are also taken by unidentified Hansen family members. Scrapbook albums relating to the history of lighthouses in New Zealand include newspaper clippings and typescript material as well as photographs. There is some inward correspondence to Tiller and a typescript of a talk titled 'The Old Ngahauranga Road'. Some people, locations, and events are identified. Collection also contains material relating to Hansen family holidays, climbing in Southern Alps, and Orongorongo Station. A letter to the photographic curator with information regarding the Frank Arnold Coxhead photographs, a note regarding an image published in New Zealand Memories, and some donor notes on identifying prints are to be found in the Photographic Archive backfile. Title supplied by Library. For manuscript material related to the Hansen family see MS-Group-0887. Arrangement: Half plate negatives at 1/2-114880 to 114917 and 1/2-175326-F to 1/2-175359-F (PH-DBII-042-2); 1/2-175398-F to 1/2-175406-F (PH-DBII-108-2); 1/2-238915-F to 1/2-238921-F (PH-2005-303). Quarter plate negatives at 1/4-057349 (PH-DBII-102-7); 1/4-068712-F to 1/4-068952-F (PH-DBII-042-2); 1/4-69066-F to 1/4-69071-F (PH-DBII-108-2); 1/4-134816-F to ¼-134863-F (PH-2005-303). 35mm negatives at 35mm-016097 to 35mm-017001 (Previously NegColl-77/1, PH-DBII-042-2); 35mm-111806 (PH-2005-303); and 35mm-112001 to 35mm-112002 (PH-2013-099). Photographic prints at PAColl-0204 (PH-DBII-083-3 and PH-DBII-102-7). Mrs Eileen M Tiller is the daughter Albert James Oliver Hansen (1890-1973) and Dorothy Gwendoline née Ridley (1890-1957), and granddaughter of lighthouse keeper Anders Hansen. Quantity: 414 b&w original photographic print(s). 323 b&w original negative(s). 111 colour original photographic print(s). 35 colour original transparency/ies. 14 colour original negative(s) strips with 32 images. 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 12 colour lantern slide(s). 11 b&w original negative(s) strips with 40 images. 9 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips with 26 images. 9 photocopy/ies. 6 b&w copy negative(s). 4 colour original negative(s). 3 album(s). 3 folder(s). 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 4 images. 1 colour original transparency/ies 35mm strips with 26 images. Physical Description: Photographic prints, photographic albums, original and copy negatives, clippings, mss, transcripts, photocopies, lantern slides, and colour transparencies, Transfers: Twenty diaries of Frederick William Hansen, transferred from Photographic Archive to Manuscripts and Archives in 2013. These are now to be found at MS-Papers-11604.. Processing information: In September 2019, the Library combined all previously described photographic materials of the same provenance as well as some of the manuscript material into this one finding aid. Note that series level description was completed for only part of this collection as the archivist was unable to retrospectively ascertain original order for those parts processed prior to September 2019. Not all names associated with the collection have been indexed.

Date: 9 Mar 1999 - 09 Mar 1999

From: Department of Conservation Southland oral history projects

By: Bain, Angela, active 1999; McLelland, Hinemoa, active 1960-1999

Reference: OHInt-0960-11

Description: Interviewer(s) - Angela Bain Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013004 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4509.

Date: 1961

From: Leask, Derek William, 1948-: Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-11490

Description: Folder contains a photocopy of `Inventory of plans' prepared by his firm [Stevensons] and presented to the National Library of Scotland by D Alan Stevenson in 1958. Includes a covering page which details a brief history of the Stevensons civil engineering firm. Inventory lists plans for lighthouses, manuscript number, location, date and description. These photocopies list New Zealand lighthouses from Akaroa to Tuahine Point, 1862 to 1934. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)