Freezing workers

Date: [1960s-1980s]

From: Rowling, Wallace Edward, 1927-1995 :Official photographs

Reference: PAColl-9589-4

Description: Miscellaneous photographs of Rowling in political activities overseas and at home. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). 12 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1976

From: Scales, Sid, 1916-2003 :[One folder of cartoons featuring Robert Muldoon and the Muldoon era. Published in the Otago Daily Times, 1976]

Reference: A-319-037

Description: Shows Rob Muldoon and Tom Skinner staring at a golf ball in long grass labelled 'strike'. The accompanying news quote reads: 'Otago Charity Golf Classic commences today, as does the Government's compulsory conference on the Freezing Works dispute'. Muldoon's golf bag holds a machete, an axe, a club and a hammer, as well as a couple of golf clubs Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Sid Scales Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 280 x 380 mm Provenance: Donated by Sid Scales in 1998

Date: 7 Nov 2005 - 07 Nov 2005

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Huntley, Waru, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0856-10

Description: Interview with Waru Huntley, born in Picton in 1938. Talks about his mother Harley dying when he was young, and being brought up by her brother and sister-in-law Cairo and Kuna Huntley and his grandfather William Huntley. Comments on exposure to Maori language and culture in his childhood. Refers to the family living near the whaling station during the whaling season, attending both Whekenui and Waikawa Schools, and growing up with whales. Talks about starting work for the Peranos doing maintenance as soon as he left school. Describes working on Lookout Hill whalespotting for the 1954 season where he worked with four uncles, and refers to harpooning one whale. Refers to getting a permanent job in the Picton freezing works and not going back to whaling again. Talks about the impact of the end of whaling and other industries on Picton and the decline of farming in the Marlborough Sounds. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016011 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5774, OHDL-001405. Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001406) Search dates: 1938 - 2005

Date: [ca 22 Mar 1974]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1974/1306-F

Description: At Longburn freezing works, Manawatu, circa 22 March 1974. Includes three images of the buildings and surrounding area, and two of (workers at a union meeting ?). Photographs taken circa 22 March 1974 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 5 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives, 35mm

Date: 1910, 1951

From: Scott, Richard George, 1923-2020: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9508-3

Description: Photographs relating to the 1951 waterfront dispute. Includes photographs of trade union meetings, trade union members, and working conditions of waterfront workers, used for the publication '151 days; history of the great waterfront lockout and supporting strikes, February 15-July 15, 1951'. Includes a group portrait of the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union, Womens Auxillary and the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation, Fourth Annual Conference, Lyttelton, August 16th, 1910. Quantity: 96 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 10 August 1985

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1985/3581-F

Description: Longburn freezing worker pulling dowm (stripping) the skin from a sheep carcase on the production chain. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin 10 August 1985. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative 35mm

Date: 1976

From: Scales, Sid, 1916-2003 :[One folder of cartoons featuring Robert Muldoon and the Muldoon era. Published in the Otago Daily Times, 1976]

Reference: A-319-034

Description: Shows two dejected men walking along in Inuit clothing, past others in igloos, in a frozen area labelled 'Wage freeze conditions'. The accompanying news quote reads: 'Meat workers' union bans the loading-out of export lamb because a travel allowance demand was rejected ...' Comments on the Government's introduction of a 12-month wage freeze from May 1976, which was intended to control nominal wage growth and reduce the rate of inflation. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Sid Scales Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 280 x 380 mm Provenance: Donated by Sid Scales in 1998

Date: 1986

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Park, Lloyd, active 1980s

Reference: PA12-10922

Description: One of Wrightson NMA's venison meat-packing factories showing venison being processed. Quantity: 5 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1986

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Park, Lloyd, active 1980s

Reference: PA12-10921

Description: One of Wrightson NMA's venison meat-packing factories showing venison being processed. Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1986

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Park, Lloyd, active 1980s

Reference: PA12-10920

Description: One of Wrightson NMA's venison meat-packing factories showing venison being processed. Quantity: 8 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 18 Jan 2006 - 25 Jan 2006 - 1 Feb 2006 - 01 Feb 2006

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Perano, Leonard Charles, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0856-16

Description: Interview with Leonard (Ted) Perano, born at Christchurch in 1929. Discusses how his father Charles Eugenio Perano and uncle Joseph August Perano (Joe snr) were fishermen who began whaling in Tory Channel in 1911, but fell out and his father was bought out by Joe snr. Recalls growing up at Wairau Bar in a blended family - both parents had children from previous marriages. Talks about working for agricultural contractors before starting work at the whaling station in 1947 when it was only partly roofed. Describes the process of cutting up a whale on the blubber board and in the boning room, and disposal of the meat, bone and waste. Comments on working as a deck hand on the Tuatea which was used to tow whales to the factory, as a mobile whale-spotter, and for preparing explosives and repairing harpoons. Describes working on Lookout Hill as a whale spotter, starting at sunrise, and the actions once a whale was sighted. Refers to becoming a spare gunner. Comments on living in a bach at Whekenui while ashore, social activities of the whalers, and the good pay. Talks about his off-season work - three seasons maintenance at the whaling station, and on the scow Echo. Refers to taking up rowing. Mentions he met his wife Leonie when she was teacher at Whekenui School, and marrying in Wanganui. Comments on working in freezing works in Wanganui and later in Gisborne as a manager. Reflects on his feelings about whaling. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016022 - OHC-016025 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 4 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s) over 3 days. 3.28 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5780, OHDL-001417. Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001418) Search dates: 1929 - 2006

Date: [ca 1950s-2001]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Labour-Meatworkers

Description: Photographs relating to meatworkers and industrial disputes. The images are dated circa 1950s-2000, and were compiled for internal use by the library of the Evening Post newspaper

Date: [ca 2 March 1988]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Nicholson, John, active 1997

Reference: EP/1988/1018-F

Description: Halal slaughterman Aziz Shaari stands at a slaughterboard beside an arrow pointing to Mecca. Photographs taken ca 2 March 1988 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923-:Eight cartoons mostly published by the Dominion [late 1980s?].

Reference: A-290-064

Description: Cartoon shows a line of cheerful singing freezing workers climbing a gang-plank into a building labelled "Freezing Works". A large "Shock-stun" machine inside the building swings back and forth, and the resulting stunned worker-victims fall on to the back of a truck that waits below. A sign to the "Unemployment Scrap Heap" points to the far right. This refers to a large and unexpected downturn in freezing works employment numbers. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, 316 x 410 mm.

Date: 1970

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0142

Description: Views of men at work inside the meatworks at the Lorneville plant of the Alliance Group Freezing Works, near Invercargill, Southland. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Sourse of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 9 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1893

From: History of a New Zealand sheep from the station to the London market. London, Jas Truscott & Son, 1893

Reference: PUBL-0199-02

Description: Shows three men working in a freezing chamber where rows of sheep carcasses are hanging. Two men are bagging each carcass, while the man on the left is carrying more bags in to be used. Extended Title - From: History of New Zealand sheep from the station to the London market. London, 1893. Plate 3, [page 16 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, image 85 x 155 mm on page 122 x 180 mm.

Date: 2008

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0007139

Description: Shows stockyards with sheep in one pen and freezing workers in another. Refers to likely cuts in freezing worker jobs because of fewer sheep being farmed. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).