Farms

Date: 1982-1984

By: Jobs Research Trust

Reference: PAColl-5918

Description: Slides record New Zealand co-operative enterprises flourishing in the early 1980s. Many are co-operative farms, gardens, craft factories, and shops. Other slides relate to or have been created by CELT (Co-operative Enterprise and Loan Trust). There is also a sequence on the Salvation Army Work Scheme in Taranaki. There are three information slide sequences, one called "Good Work-an introduction to New Zealand Worker Cooperatives" created by CELT, and "Renewable energy for today and tomorrow" from the Centre for Alternative Technology. The third is entitled "The New Echonomic Adgenda" and dates from 1984. Arrangement: Slides at PA12-1600 to 1685 Quantity: 1720 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1949-1957

By: Brown, John Bruce, 1907-1989; Madle, Elizabeth, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5880

Description: Land clearance and development projects during the 1950s. Photographs show examples of techniques and machinery used for bringing in land such as rolling and crushing scrub and using cattle to crush and clear lupins. Much of the land developed for agriculture during this period was pumice land. There is a slide sequence designed to show methods for establishing pasture on this particular soil type, and a number of other slides showing the finished product -- productive farms in the Rotorua area. Landblocks named in this collection are, Newstead Block, "Rushden" Waipukurau, Lynwood F. S., and Okahukura Block. Arrangement: Transparencies at PA12-1577 to 1581 Quantity: 127 b&w original photographic print(s). 105 transparencies. Provenance: Mrs Madle is daughter of Bruce Brown (1906-1990?) a former Deputy Director of Lands & Survey.

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson) 1844-1903 :Sketchbook [1890s?]

Reference: E-335-q-002

Description: Rolling countryside, probably Taranaki, with bush in the background, a large fenced paddock with a house and shed and the trunk of a dead tree, a cabbage tree to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 164 x 228 mm

Date: 1973

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Sports post (Newspaper)

Reference: B-134-429

Description: This cartoon shows two farmers. One has just opened a letter out of his letterbox. It is a cheque for drought relief but with a 40 percent reduction for the farmers' income freeze. Published in the Sports Post Extended Title - Drought relief for Wairarapa farmers has been approved by government. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 387 x 340 mm

Date: 1912

By: Cuthbert, J B, active 1912

Reference: MapColl-832.19gbbd/1912/Acc.25700

Description: Cadastral map depicting the plan of bush trees on Lot 19 Mangatu No. 1 Block on Okihau Station, along the Waitangirua River and bordering Wi Pere Trust land. Depicts leading spur, one property of 186 acres and one of 95 acres. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [1: 7920], 40 x 34 cm.

Date: 1926-1934

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0112

Description: Contains audit report and written statements in regard to the programmes administered by the Native Department. Includes a list of staff employed by the Native Department between 1926 - 1933. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1879-1904

By: Beavis, G (Miss), active 1996

Reference: PAColl-1857

Description: Photograph of Fitchett's Farm, Brooklyn, ca 1879, and "La Bella" stranded at Owhiro Bay, 1904 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1919 - 1925

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to agriculture, farms and farming]

By: Waiuku Returned Soldiers' Association

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-1920s-01

Description: Booklet advising returned soldiers who may want to take up farming, advising caution, forethought in deciding what size and kind of farm to buy: locality, carrying capacity, farm buildings, fences and gates, machinery, stock, management. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 4 pages in orange cover, 196 x 127 mm. Provenance: Donated by Bill Sheat, Lower Hutt, in 2015.

Date: 8 Oct 1998 - 08 Oct 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Dawson, Ailsa, active 1998; Calvert, John Jabez, 1910-1999

Reference: OHInt-0464/03

Description: Gives details of his family background and schooling. Talks about Invercargill and the Jabez Hay foundry of which his father was a part owner. Describes their farm at Kennington which had hens and dairy cows. Mentions rabbiting. Describes marrying Thelma Ayers in 1935 and their family of six children. Discusses his love of breeding and showing birds and long association with the Invercargill Poultry Pigeon and Canary Club. Mentions membership of the Pirates Rugby Football Club and being a fast winger. Describes managing the City Coal Company during the war. Talks about living at Kennington and Otatara and building three houses during his married life. Interviewer(s) - Ailsa Dawson Accompanying material - Newspaper cutting of the obituary of his father James Francis Calvert; funeral programme for Jack Calvert Quantity: 1 MiniDisc(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract OHA-2680. Photos of Jack Calvert and Jack Calvert with his family

Date: 6 Feb 1998 - 06 Feb 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: McFarland, Paulette, active 1998; Dodds, Andrew James, 1917-2003

Reference: OHInt-0428/06

Description: Jim Dodds was born in Charlton in 1917. Describes the house in which he grew up and schooling at Charlton School from 1922 to 1930. Comments on the effect of the Depression and World War II on neighbourliness. Recalls the children's farm jobs and his work driving a team of horses after leaving school. Recalls family holidays to Owaka, Otawa and Riverton. Describes music at the dances, meeting his wife, his engagement and wedding. Talks about conscription for World War II and being released to work on Jenkin's farm. Mentions lambing, feeding, shearing and checking stock. Describes his first farm, which was a tussock block, and his first car, a Vauxhall. Describes the process of clearing the land. Mentions ploughing, soil condition, buying horses and operating a horse team. Details the stock, which was mainly Romney ewes, the increase in stock numbers, the role of the stock firm as stock buyer and bank, farm equipment, the size and cost of farms over the years, the location of dairy factories and freezing works and the work performed by women. Discusses social life on the farm including visiting neighbours, and concerts and choir recitals. Mentions excursions into town, ordering the groceries, attending A and P shows and dog trials. Interviewer(s) - Paulette McFarland Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2597.

Date: 2001-2002 - 14 May 2002 - 27 Nov 2001

By: Leniston, Elizabeth Theresa, 1926-2017; Leniston, Martin John, 1925-; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-

Reference: OHColl-0607

Description: Interviews with Elizabeth (Betty) Leniston and Martin John (Johnny) Leniston. Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Accompanying material - E-mails between Margaret Leniston and Judith Fyfe, sprigs of dried lavender, notes from preliminary interview Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 2 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstracts. 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1925 - 2002

Date: 24 Feb 2002

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Richmond, Joanna Mary, 1946-; Richmond, Thomas John Findlay, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0673-02

Description: Thomas Richmond, known as Jock, was born in Waipawa, Hawkes Bay, in 1936. Mentions his father, a farm manager in Hawkes Bay for Harry Rathbone and the Eaton family. Talks about moving to Otaki aged four years. Refers to being taught by a governess, horse riding to school, teaching conditions at Te Horo School, steam trains, boarding at Wanganui Collegiate, compulsory military training on leaving school, and sports. Talks about working as a wool classer on Happy Valley Station, a McKenzie family farm in Canterbury, at age 18 years. Mentions using horses and poisoning possums. Talks about delivering milk in drums by truck to Otaki Railway Milk Treatment Station, to be processed into cheese, butter or bottled milk at the Rahui Milk Treatment Factory. Mentions events at the factory, some employees, work being replaced by tankers, and moving to Canada. Recalls driving kerosene powered caterpillar tractor at age 10. Mentions learning to drive and getting his heavy traffic licence. Recalls extensive flooding in Pahiko, and flood control contractors, Downer & Co. Describes share milking work, naming several milkers, including Marmaduke Atkinson, Bunny Hawea, and Joe Broughton. Mentions the drain cleaners, harvesters and seasonal workers from Katihiku, and Rangi Hawea and Ta Davis who ran the Hay Press. Mentions the first mobile press owned by his uncle, John Aldworth in 1947, describes his contracting work and accidental death. Recalls why his father didn't go to World War II. Mentions 1930s floods on the Tukituki River, Hawkes Bay. Recalls 1960's overseas trip, returning home to farm, playing representative rugby, and possum hunting and trapping. Interviewer(s) - Jan Richmond Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11059 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3867. Search dates: 1940 - 1965

Date: 1917

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-752-025

Description: View of a car protected by a canvas cover. A watertower, a plain and hills beyond Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, page size 110 x 180 mm.

Date: 1917

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-752-026

Description: View of a car protected by a canvas cover. For a fuller view see E-752-025 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, page size 110 x 180 mm.

Date: 1985-1989

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to agriculture, farms and farming]

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-1985/1989

Description: Includes: 1985: Flock Hill Lodge. High country station, Canterbury New Zealand. Year round recreation in unique alpine surroundings. Pamphlet [1985] New Zealand Department of Labour. Agricultural workers accommodation; a guide to the Agricultural Workers' Accommodation regulations 1963. Pamphlet New Zealand Grassland Association. Herbage seed production & use conference. Lincoln College, Canterbury, 12-15 May 1985. Pamphlet / registration form New Zealand Grassland Association. Northland 85. Annual conference. Forum North Centre, Whangarei, 28-31 October 1985. Pamphlet / registration form New Zealand Institute of Agricultural Science. Convention '85. Water '85. Lincoln College, 2-6 September 1985. Pamphlet programme for 2-4 September (Green print)(2 copies) New Zealand Institute of Agricultural Science. Convention '85. Water '85. Lincoln College, 2-6 September 1985. Pamphlet programme for 5-6 September (Blue print)(2 copies) New Zealand. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries: Flock House Farm Learning Centre. Prospectus for Certificate of Vocational Agriculture. February 1985 Yates Farmfax; the future of farming in New Zealand is the management of information for profit. Pamphlet 1986: Lindale sheep show. Admit one child. Ticket [dated 4 September 1986](3 copies in a strip) [New Zealand. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries]. Primedia; primary producer information. Primedia catalogue. 1 September 1986 1987: New Zealand farmers yearbook. 1987 [Not included in main folder, as it is hardback] 1988: New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers Clubs. FMG Festival Week. Tauranga, 10-13 June 1988. Pamphlet New Zealand Irrigation Association Inc. Marlborough Conference '88. Marlborough Centre, Blenheim, 11-14 April 1988. Pamphlet / registration form 1989: Lindale, a growing experience. Agriculture on display. [ca 1989]. Card New Zealand Department of Health. Handling farm chemicals. Code 4280. 1989 New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers Clubs. FMG Festival Week. Lincoln, 1-5 July 1989. Pamphlet New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists. Membership benefits. Pamphlet [ca 1989] Rainbow Farm, Rotorua New Zealand. Pamphlet [ca 1989] Related material may be housed at other subject locations: CATTLE, FARM MACHINERY, SHEEP, SHOW Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1980-1984

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to agriculture, farms and farming]

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-1980/1984

Description: Includes: 1980s: Limestone Downs; the furtherance of the science of agriculture. A sheep and beef cattle farm, Raglan County New Zealand [1980s] New Zealand's permanent N.Z. Agrodome. Riverdale Park, Rotorua. Pamphlet 1980s Wakelins Agtour; New Zealand's farming showcase. Bay of Islands New Zealand [1980s]. Pamphlet ca 1980: Rural Co-Operative Society Ltd, Timaru. [Member's handbook. ca 1980] 1981: Agricultural Training Council. Regional courses Manawatu, Rangitikei, Wanganui. 1981. Green pamphlet Farmers' Seminar; Booroola genetics, breeding and management. Lincoln College, 11 November 1981. Programme / pamphlet New Zealand Federated Farmers. Farm policies for growth. NZFF General election 1981. N.Z. Grassland Association annual conference. Devon Motor Lodge New Plymouth, 2-5 November 1981. Pamphlet / registration form 1982: Agricultural Training Council. ATC, ATO, RTC. What's it all about? Pamphlet [1982] New Zealand. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries: Flock House Farm Learning Centre. Prospectus for One year certificate course. April 1982 N.Z. Grassland Association annual conference. Wesley Centre Blenheim, 1-4 November 1982. Pamphlet / registration form Waikato Federated Farmers news, Vol. 9 no. 5, June 1982. 1XR 855 kHz; Radio with boots on 14-19 June [1982]. Pamphlet 1983: Family day on the farm. Department of Lands and Survey Whareroa Farm Block Paekakariki, 6 February 1983. Pamphlet Introducing the C Alma Baker Trust and Limestone Downs. June 1983. Pamphlet [New Zealand Department of Lands and Survey]. Whareroa Farm; Sheep and Beef Unit. December 1983. Pamphlet (2 copies) N.Z. Grassland Association annual conference. Sandown Park Hotel Gisborne, 7-10 November 1984. Pamphlet / registration form 1984: Agricultural Training Council. Information technology; a seminar for the rural community ... in association with the New Zealand Post Office and BPI Systems Ltd. Pamphlet / registration form New Zealand Federated Farmers. Agriculture - the anchor of the economy. NZFF General election '84 (2 copies) Related material may be housed at other subject locations: CATTLE, FARM MACHINERY, SHEEP, SHOW Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1953 - 1954

From: Angus, Rita 1908-1970 :[Sketchbook X. Loose sketches 1940-1960]

Reference: E-435-f-002

Description: Groups of mature cabbage trees, roughly sketched, with details of a gate, fence and browsing animals Identified as Northland and dated 1953-1954 by Ron Brownson, Auckland Art Gallery, 1980s Exhibited in 'ART Notes: 20th century artists' papers and sketches from the Turnbull Library' exhibition curated by Jill Trevelyan, in the Turnbull Room, National Library Gallery, 27 November 1999 - 6 February 2000. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 129 mm

Date: 1987

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-192/223

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 32 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1920-1925

From: MacKay, B.R.S.A. (Estate) :Family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-784

Description: The MacKay family in the early 1920s. Some probably taken at their home in Seatoun Wellington. Other photos record life on a farm from a childs point of view with rides on sheep and freshly slaughtered pigs hanging outside. There are views of the Dunedin Exhibition in 1925 and many people shots of family members Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1910

From: MacArthur & Co Ltd :Photographs relating to the Monrad, and Taine families

Reference: PAColl-5602-16

Description: This image was published in "D G Monrad; Scholar, Statesman, Priest and New Zealand Pioneer" by G C Petersen, Published in 1965. It is opposite page 129. Bishop Monrad's grandson, Oscar Monrad, was a member of a consortium set up to develop the Maraekowhai Block. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).