Orchards

Date: Sep 1996 to Jul 1997

By: Gough, Elaine, active 1997; Morgan, Janis, active 1997

Reference: OHColl-0446

Description: Talks to people who have lived and worked in the area, near Alexandra, for a long period of time. Orcharding families associated with the area include the Iversens, Taylors and Dawsons. Comments on changes in stone fruit growing and orcharding. Interviewees are Mon McGinnis, Howard Hinton, Dick McArthur, John Campbell, Anne Duncan, Gary Iversen, Eric Hawkins, Mary Ormandy, Gill McLaren, Margaret Matheson, John Taylor, Earnscy Weaver, Pat Ferris and Stan Hanning Interviewer(s) - Elaine Gough Interviewer(s) - Janis Morgan Quantity: 24 C60 cassette(s). 14 transcript(s). 14 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available.

Date: Nov 2000-Jun 2001

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012

Reference: OHColl-0551

Description: Interviews with a number of people who spent their childhood in this rural district north west of Auckland City during the 1910s and 1920s. The area was long used as a portage by Maori between the Kaipara and Waitemata harbours. Pakeha initially settled during the mid to late 1800s and, after forest and gum clearance, the area was slowly developed into dairy farms. In 1915 nearly 5000 acres of scrubland at Kumeu North (renamed Huapai) were subdivided as orchards, mixed farms and weekend homes. There was an influx of new residents (including weekend only residents) following this. Huapai School opened in 1919. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 27 C60 cassette(s). 8 printed abstract(s). 8 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 17 March 1897

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944: Assorted photographic prints and negatives

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: PA7-09-27

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

Date: 1918

By: New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation; S Hempton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-FRUIT-1918-01

Description: Catalogue of entries and essay on modern methods of apple packing. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings, a few in colour. A very detailed description of the show is given in the 'Auckland Star', 1 May 1918, Page 6 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 120 pages, ill., some col. 22 cm.

Date: 1909

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-065-002

Description: A view in an orchard This picture was awarded the 1st prize in the Farm or Station Class for the `Auckland Weekly News' eleventh photographic competition. Extended Title - Supplement to: The Auckland Weekly News special Christmas Number, 1909 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 387 x 575 mm

Date: 1860 - 1879

By: Babington, Thomas A, active 1860s

Reference: B-035-037

Description: Shows Charles Reginald Shaw and Annie Shaw working in the garden of their house in Park Ave, Timaru. The house is two-storied with a tiled roof. An orchard is in the foreground, a hedge surrounds the house, with archways and tall trees grow in the background Photo of Charles Reginald Shaw, negative number 44060 1/2 Charles Reginald Shaw is listed in Wises Directory 1878-79 and 1880-81 as living at Great South Road, Timaru Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 230 x 324 mm Provenance: Donation: Mr Rex Carter, 1983. The artist was a friend of Charles Reginald Shaw. Painting earlier passed by family descent to the Shaw/Carter families

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/2/7-Acc.38777

Description: Identifies by colour and symbols butter fat production, fat lamb production, dry sheep, wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, lucerne, turnips, orchards and arable forage crop in the southern part of the South Islands Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on dressed linen. Scale indeterminable. 38 x 35.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-387-131

Description: Shows two men in an orchard in Loburn, North Canterbury. A wooden box labelled 'Anti-hailstorm rockets. Handle with care' has just exploded as the men tried to open it Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and blue coloured pencil on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: [circa 1930s-1950s?]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

Reference: PA11-278

Description: Lantern slides relating to propagation of fruit trees, 1930s-1950s. Photographer(s) are unidentified, but most images appear to be copies of illustrations and texts from an unidentified gardening publication. Some slides have captions written on paper affixed to the glass, that describe the subject. Includes examples of grafts, pruning, and training methods on apple trees (and one for a black currant bush). Also shows "extensive cropping" in Tasmania. Three further images show hyacinth seeds shooting, bulbs "crosscut and scooped", and pots for cuttings from rhododendrons. Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 9 with paper divider marking set reading "Fruit pruning + crafting of fruit". Quantity: 15 b&w lantern slide(s) comprising 1 original image and 14 copy images. 1 colour lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: 5 May 1995 - 22 Nov 1996 - 05 May 1995

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Shaw, Alasdair Archibald, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0438-12

Description: Alasdair Shaw was born near Hastings in 1944. Mentions he is third in the family and his parents had a small orchard. Recalls going to Twyford School, Scots College and Hastings Boys High School. Mentions injuries from playing rugby and shepherding. Describes jobs on a station near Gisborne, at Tomoana Works and Maraetotara. Describes a sheep diploma course at Massey University in 1965 and three months in the army at Waiouru in 1966. Comments on enjoying the discipline in the Army. Mentions his love of rugby and returning to work at his father's orchard. Describes high insurance premiums and hailstorm damage to fruit. Talks about the irrigation system, moisture testing of soil, packing, developing new apples, apple varieties and market changes. Talks about his daughters and ski-ing holidays. Discusses electoral changes and MMP. Comments on labour shortage on orchards and orcharding costs including costs of bringing in new varieties. Discusses a hearing on submissions about a proposed bridge over the Ngaruroro River and culverts under the motorway by his house. Mentions the role of the Regional Council and Transit New Zealand. Talks about Apple Fields (company), the Apple and Pear Board and overseas markets. Comments on the necessity of such a board. Interviewer(s) - Pam Lockhart Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2143. Search dates: 1944 - 1996

Date: 1917

By: New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation; J. Wilkie & Company

Reference: Eph-A-FRUIT-1917-01

Description: Catalogue of entries and photographs of apple orchards and workers around New Zealand. Contains many pages of advertisements for Dunedin businesses. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 140 pages, 217 x 141 mm.

Date: [January 1969] - 1960s-1970s

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA12-11560

Description: Transparencies of the Tasman District, circa January 1969. Taken by Les Cleveland. Waimea West photographs show St Michael's Church as well as the grave of Catherine Anne Thorburn and Kohn Kerr. Also John Palmer's house "The Gables" and tobacco and hops growing on a farm. Wakefield images show the post office and an unidentified group raspberry picking on a farm. Raspberries and apples are also photographed growing on a farm in Redwood Valley. Golden Bay images show Tarakohe Cement Works and adjacent coastal area, cows being herded on road at Onekaka. Photographs from Collingwood Queen Carnival show the tossing of hay bales and three photographs of the Takaka Citizens Band. Four photographs show a Scripture Union "Crusaders in Schools" children's service on Kaiteriteri Beach. A model of Calgary and of Jesus's tomb is made out of sand and other beach materials. Includes accordion and guitar players. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card slide frames Transfers: Part one of three. See remainder of set at PA12-11561 and PA12-11562.. Processing information: Slides that were originally stored together were split into three parts to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: ca 1920-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-3740-02

Description: Scenic photographs of Wellington City and Harbour, as well as images of sheep farming and shearing, orchard and vineyard workers harvesting fruit, unidentified viaduct, crematorium at Karori Cemetery and Wellington Fire Station, etc Arrangement: Large number of file prints from Free Lance Collection already in public files. Prints in this box cover negative range of 1/2-100349 to 1/2-100552, arranged in numerical order. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.

Date: [ca 1974]

By: Rodda, Thomas Edward, 1881-1975?

Reference: MS-Papers-9980

Description: Rodda describes his life including background from his birth and arrival in NZ in 1884, his life on his family's farm, near Rangiriri, now Te Kauwhata, the Maori in the district, including their use of flour sacks for clothing, mosquitoes, school days, his first employment on Waerenga Experimental Farm, his experiences with early, and later, grape and fruitgrowing. In March 1905 he began work on road and rail construction at Oio and he describes work conditions and the work in some detail, until he returned to Waerenga inAug 1905. He describes his various positions within the department, often as an inspector. He joined the Legion of Frontiersmen in 1913 and the Hamilton Company of the National Military Reserve in 1939. He describes duties as a justice of the peace, his experiences during the depression and his appointment as farm manager and college superintendent at Ruakura Farm of Instruction in 1932, and breeding of pedigree milking cattle. He concludes with a descriptiion of his life after retirement. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (26 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Auckland Historical Society, Auckland, per Ms Winifred Macdonald, editor, Jul 1976

Date: [ca 1903-1930]

From: Harcourt, P (Dr), fl 1982 :Baldwin album and assorted photographs

Reference: PA1-o-032

Description: Album of family photographs of the Jasper Baldwin family. Most people are unidentified, except one photograph labelled Sir Guy and Lady Powles. Two yachts are named the Wairere and the Marangi. There are images of haymaking, fruit growing, a trip in the centre of the North Island, motorcycles, automobiles, and parts of the Tasman region. A number of loose photographs are stored in a pocket at the end of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown soft-covered album labelled "Photographs", 180 x 300 mm

Date: 1888

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Tour in Italy 1888

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-353-q-015

Description: The orchard and needle cypresses with Certosi monastery beyond. Detail of the chapel tower at right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 150 x 240 mm

Date: 1930 - 1949

By: Connell, Richard Patrick, 1892-1949; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Hunt, John, active 2002; Hunt, Jenny, active 2002

Reference: MapColl-830gbb/[n.d.]/Acc.39386

Description: Map idenifying major horticultural and agricultural land utilisation of the South Island, including butter fat production, sheep, breeding ewes, orchards, crops such as wheat, oats, barley, maize, potates, lucerne, turnips, as well as land not used for farming, denoted by colour and symbols, as per legend. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured ink on diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 73.8 x 57.2 cm Provenance: Donated by John and Jenny Hunt, August, 2002 Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PH-2002-320.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Eglenton, H B, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-0680-F

Description: Panoramic view of an Australian Federation style house, picket fence, flat paddock. Poplar and willow trees, fruit orchard at one edge. Sheep near house. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - H.B. Eglenton Box 172 Hastings 2 B&W 1 oils. Dark red on verandah black facings. Willows etc. Roses in garden.; Marginal notes on tape - Eglenton Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.9 x 110.3 cm

Date: 1957

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Sketchbook]. 1956-1957.

Reference: E-485-f-015

Description: Fruit stalls and shops at a roadside Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, in sketchbook 185 x 270 mm.

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/2/6-Acc.38776

Description: Identifies by colour and symbols butter fat production; breeding ewes for production of fat lambs and for replacement of flocks; dry sheep; wheat, oats, barley and maize for threshing; potatoes; lucerne; turnips; orchards and land not being used for farming. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 71 x 57 cm Finding Aids: Inventory available.