Shepherds

Date: 1989

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: Aberhart, Laurence, 1949-; Bailey, Margaret Lockhart (Dr), 1945-; Hedgehog House (Firm); Maruia Society; New Zealand Meteorological Service; New Zealand Playcentre Federation; Potton, Craig, 1952-

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-1989

Description: Includes calendars: Antarctica 1989. [Calendar] Photography: Colin Monteath. Baird, Annie. Paintings of Wellington. Calendar 1989. Barry Crump. Humble abodes calendar 1989. Brooker & Friend Ltd. "A portrait of law", photographs by Laurence Aberhart. 1989 calendar (2 copies). Fibre news 1989 calendar. (Pictures of goats bred for their hair) God defend New Zealand calendar 1989 / John Petchell. Gully, John. New Zealand landscape paintings. Calendar 1989. Peter Hall. A shepherd's year 1989 calendar. 1989 Historic Nelson Published by the Nelson Evening Mail. (2 copies) Alison Holst. New Zealand 1989 food calendar. 1989 New Zealand alpine calendar. New Zealand Meteorological Service [calendar] 1989. 1989 New Zealand native forests calendar / Maruia Society. 1989 New Zealand Playcentre Federation [calendar]. Potton, Craig. New Zealand's wild places calendar 1989. Nancy Tichborne. Garden cats. 1989. Quantity: 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s) sets on calendars. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes. Provenance: One calendar donated by Dr Margaret Bailey, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1872

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-006-5

Description: A large flock of sheep being guarded by a man and a dog at opposite corners Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - K Holmes Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 80 x 148 mm

Date: [191-?]

By: Pain, George, 1846-1937

Reference: MS-Papers-1740

Description: Pain describes his childhood in Wellington, working as shepherd in Wairarapa and as travelling salesman until long-term involvement in land speculation in the Martinborough area and elsewhere Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original ms transcript located at MS-Papers-6264 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon copy)

Date: 1937

From: Mowat family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7496-24

Description: Parts 2-13 of a series of articles by Bruce Stronach of his experiences as a musterer on Molesworth Station (Press, Jul-Sep 1937) Relationship complexity - See `A Musterer on Molesworth' (Whitcombe and Tombs, 1953) in Printed Collections at 636.3 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1898-1971

By: Sarony Studio (Wellington, N.Z.); Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Peter Pan Studio; Tomlinson, Francis Ernest, 1864-1944; Anton, W J, active 1952; Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Davis & Company (Wellington, N.Z.); Robson and Boyer (Firm); Campbell, Colin, active 1914

Reference: PAColl-0580

Description: Family photographs of the Barnes family featuring the homestead Terewhiti and the following family members: Henry, Walter Ernest (Ernie - at various ages), Mary, Julia (Ernie's wife), Ernie's son Thomas, Lorraine, and Leslie. Also included are scenic views; scenes of mustering and shearing on the farm; Ernie and others in First World War uniforms; a burned down house; soldiers at Trentham camp eating a meal outside their tent (as a postcard signed by George McDermott to his brother and sister Alice and Bill); Lorraine Barnes taking part in a recording of the radio show The Quiz Kids as a member of the Hutt Valley team (The Quiz Kids was introduced by Selwyn Toogood in the 1950s); results of a national election being monitored on a wall chart ca 1930s; Ernie Barnes as captain of the Wellington Telephone Exchange Cricket Club; and two of officers and soldiers from the Second World War. The collection also includes a letter from the depositor with a small family tree. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1930s-1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Green & Hahn (Firm); Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Nash, Percival Frederick, -1952; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Roberts, Jack Debnam Stewart, 1891-1980; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-190

Description: Photographs taken for publication in New Free Lance, ca 1930s-1940s (many undated). Names of identified photographers and places added to Name and Place fields; also one undated photograph by H Neville Ross, Masterton. Includes scenes on sheep stations throughout New Zealand showing mustering, shearing, stock yards, musterers, Merino rams, etc. Photographs of H M Campbell's station, Te Aute, Hawke's Bay; sheep on reclaimed land Ahuriri Lagoon, Hawke's Bay; sheep mustered on land beside the Wellington motorway, ca 1940s; Hautu detention farm, Tokaanu; girl with her pet lamb, Makarora, Lake Wanaka (photographer Thelma Kent). Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1830 - 1850

From: Ashworth family :[Studies of flowers, birds, animals, fish and costumes. 1820s to 1850s?]

Reference: A-209-027

Description: Full length side profile study of a man and his dog, possibly a shepherd as there are animals nearby. He is drawn leaning on a shaft dressed in a large brimmed black hat, wearing a brown tunic over red and white striped short trousers and knee length leather leg-protectors and shoes. Sitting nearby is a black wire-haired dog wearing a collar. In the distance are sailing ships. The background and animals are roughly drawn in with pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 250 x 200 mm, mounted

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Southern Cross (Newspaper : 1946-1951)

Reference: A-369-124/134

Description: Political cartoons from the end of the ministry of Peter Fraser, and the lead up to the 1949 election in which he was defeated by Sidney Holland. These cartoons mainly address Holland's link to the British conservatives (which McNamara had a very negative view of), and general electioneering. Other cartoons relate to the "baby boom" that occurred after the war, the political situation in Britain, and an electricity crisis. Some illustrations of animals are also included. Quantity: 11 newsclippings. Physical Description: Newspaper clippings glued to wallpaper, sizes vary

Date: 8 April 2004

From: Drovers Project

By: Burney, Alben Charles, 1922-

Reference: OHInt-0759-02

Description: Oral history interview with Alben Burney, born 8th April, 1922 in Christchurch. Mentions milking in Kaikoura in his youth. Recalls his brief war experience - mentions the 14th Regiment. Discusses meeting his wife Ruth. Talks about mustering at Clarence Reserve and Rata Downs Station near Cheviot. Details the differences between mustering and shepherding. Describes starting work at Molesworth Station, Hanmer Springs - recalls the number of sheep he mustered. Talks about moving to Feilding. Discusses finding work after World War II - mentions Borthwicks and Harry Ferguson. Talks about working on Henshaw's farm in Kimbolton. Discusses beginning as a drover in the 1950s - recalls the journey of moving stock. Recounts his memories of other drovers he worked with - mentions Kit, Bob Dagg, Charlie Sundgren, Linc Campbell, Len Stevens, and Keith and Huia Sowerby. Details the types of dogs he worked. Explains various commands and whistles. Recounts how drovers were percieved at the time - talks about the hours of work. Explains his work in the sales yards and the Friday sales. Mentions Scottie Moyes. Talks about the impact of the lorries on droving. Discusses the statue of the drover in Feilding. Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Ruth Low Accompanying material - 1 photograph, 15 x 10 cm [date unknown]; biographical informaion relating to Alben Burney; copy of a published newpaper article on Alben Burney. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014325, OHC-014326 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1.12 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5010, OHDL-000423. 1 colour photograph, 15 x 10cm, of Alben Burney [date unknown]. Published newpaper article includes copies of a photograph of Alben Burney. Search dates: 08/04/2004

Date: 17 November 2003

From: Drovers Project

By: Martin, Noel Harold, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0759-07

Description: Oral history interview with Noel Martin, born December 27th 1936, in Eltham. Recalls his early life in Mangatoke - discusses moving to the family farm in 1944. Details daily life on the farm. Talks about the farm stock - describes the milking sheds and equipment. Details the hay cutting process - describes what a horse-drawn mower looked like. Talks about the beginning of World War II - mentions father being in the Homeguard. Recalls attending Mangatoki School, Pukingahu School, and Ohura District High School. Talks about leaving school at the age of sixteen to go shepherding. Discusses the 'wool boom' of 1951. Mentions working at Duncan's Station, Otairi. Talks about fire-branding cattle. Mentions working at Akitio Station. Discusses moving to Ohakune to help out on brother's block of land. Talks about buying own farm in Woodville. Talks about how he began droving - mentions Linc Campbell. Mentions droving through Gisborne, Motuhoura, Rangiwahia, and the lower Manawatu. Describes a regular drove. Discusses the different roles of the working dogs - details different whistle commands. Explains the terms tonguing and stone buising. Talks about droving with Linc Campbell. Mentions Gisborne drover Frank Lambert. Mentions other drovers Jack Henry, Sonny Baker, and Robert Brison. Details the types of work he picked up between droves. Discusses sole droving. Talks about the decline of droving - mentions public pressure. Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Ruth Low Accompanying material - 1 colour photograph, 15 x 10 cm [date unknown]; biographical information relating to Noel Martin. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014339, OHC-014340 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1.33 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5015, OHDL-000425. 1 colour photograph, 15 x 10 cm, [date unknown] of Noel Martin and his dogs. Search dates: 17/11/2003

Date: 3 November 2003

From: Drovers Project

By: Philps, Brian Arthur, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-0759-08

Description: Oral history interview with Brian Philps, born 3rd April, 1928 in Palmerston North. Talks about his family background. Recalls skipping school to help move stock. Discusses starting work at Borthwicks Freezing Works in 1946 - details the work of a shepherd. Talks about working dogs - gives examples of whistle commands. Recalls local drovers - mentions Keith Sowerby, Norm Signal, Syd Signal, Linc Campbell, Scottie Moyes, Huia Sowerby, Charlie Sundgren, George Davies, Bill Thompson, and Dan Cantwell. Talks about droving on horse and on bike. Recalls Hurley droves and sales. Recounts particular droves - mentions Ashhurst, Waipawa, Tuki Tuki, Woodville, and Rongotea. Talks about being made Foreman at Borthwicks - details how the freezing works changed during his time there. Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Ruth Low Accompanying material - 1 colour photograph, 15 x 10 cm [date unknown]; biographical information relating to Brian Philips. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014341 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 0.38 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft Word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5016, OHDL-000426. 1 colour photograph, 15 x 10 cm, of Brian Philips [date unknown]. Search dates: 03/11/2003

Date: [1930]

By: Brassington, Walter, 1903?-1984

Reference: MS-Papers-7401

Description: Comprises holograph and typescript copies of `Diversions of a New Zealander' by Brassington describing a walking trip he made around the South Island of New Zealand in the 1920s Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript

Date: 1852

From: Rees, William Gilbert, 1827-1898 : Papers

Reference: E-199-q-026

Description: A fenced enclosure with a wooden hut with bark slab roof, another small open-ended hut (possibly a dog-kennel) and two eucalypts with others in the background . A wood pile of large trunks lies to the right Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The Cudgegong River rising kept us here 4 days Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white, 143 x 237 mm

Date: 1946-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Casbolt, Frederick Lennard, 1896-1987

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181A

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1946-1959 Wanganui Collegiate sports day (names of spectators on verso), undated; South Canterbury hunt pack with beagles, undated; man on beach dressed as pirate with young child (photographer, F Lennard Casbolt, Christchurch), undated; pheasants at Waitati battery, 1948; mob of sheep on the move outside Ruatoria; tilling with draught horses, 1959; musterers on Te Araroa-Opotiki highway, 1959; fairground (location not given); family picnic; St Columba's Presbyterian Church (location unknown); Lord Cobham being shown by John Rundle the method of making sheet music of the player piano type; waterfall at Kerikeri. Lola McIntosh, Beth McBeth & Zoe Fergus cycling near Napier, undated; Miss Bunt with her dog in cycle basket outside Christchurch shops, undated; tame thar at Ferntosh Station, Mt Cook; Joan Buller & Janet Aimer (of Auckland) hiking along road near Hokitika; group walking on bush track in Marlborough Sounds; aerial view of crowds at racecourse after finish of NZ Cup, 1946. Shipping related photographs - Portion of wall in Cecil Vause's bedroom showing ship's photographs; ship relics; rigging of a sailing ship; Maori war canoe anchors; poster advertising the sailing of the clipper `Kiwi', Captain Joseph Bryers, grandfather of W Bryers (all photographed by A W Powell, Auckland) HMNZS Hawea naval personnel - L J Blick, T Drower, W R Harraway & W Taylor with Arancui Shield for whalers; M E Baggett & C W Robinson holding the Ararci Shield for Dinghies; and two other groups with trophies, 1950. Trout hatcheries at Turangi; open cast mining near Lake Kimihia. Three year olds, Hilda Virgovic and Emil Lopekji, on a swing together, Jul 1949 Includes miscellaneous correspondence and notes Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1948

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-216

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, Mar-Jul 1948. Includes book-binding; Auckland Sunday School Union mobile van (F E Slattery & W E Archer); shepherds and dogs from Lake Pukaki Station; Mount Cook Manual Training Centre, Wellington (Miss Colleen Dreyer, teacher and her pupils); girls of the Hastings Rangers Company who built a meeting-house of rammed earth with their leader Miss Pauline Tyers; Empire Day ball attended by girls from Auckland and Epsom Grammar schools, Diocesan and St Cuthbert's Collge shown dancing the minuet. Official opening of two bottle stores in Masterton by members of the Licensing Trust (includes J C D Mackley, C C Crawford and F Pickering); children in the audience of a Wellington movie theatre and looking at a poster advertising `Swiss Family Robinson'; Rora Street, Te Kuiti; D H S Riddiford making presentation to Mrs Paki (said to be 108) at Castlepoint Centenary celebrations; party of 22 typists from United Kingdom who were employed on two year contract to work in Government offices in Wellington (all named); M Anthony, skipper of New Zealand yacht Rangi with crew members F Lush and T Hammond; New Zealand flier Captain A A Mansfield, Rt Hon W J Jordan and others. Colleen Saunders wih puppies; New Zealand rugby players in London (Ted Ellisson (Dunedin), Ian McKenzie (Auckland), Arch Beadle (Dunedin), Barry Martin (Petone), Noy Reid (Auckland), Jim Hay (Wellington); Lincoln College float at Christchurch with `Millie the million dollar cow'; Handley Page Hastings, Britain's biggest transport plane at Wigram; children at Pointways, a pony club at Pakuranga; George Rush, Jack Hull, Ray Raynor and Tom Chamberlain at Timaru displaying the large number of salmon they caught; The Pinnacles near mouth of Putangirua Stream, Palliser Bay; rugby player Bob Scott; bodies of women who lost their lives in a blizzard in Copland Pass being brought to the Hermitage by guides, Apr 1848; Mrs M E Rogers of Christchurch with large salmon caught by her husband in Waimakariri River; Salvation Army Centennial Conference held in Dunedin (officers all named). Processes related to export of whiskey at a British distillery; Waitaki Boys' High School team at Otago and Southland secondary school athletic championships held in Dunedin; corvettes Arabis and Arbutus leaving Auckland for Britain; small child milking a cow; Women's Section of Christchurch RSA; Stratford Pipe Band at Inglewood United Rugby Football Club Jubilee celebrations; people under hypnosis; New Plymouth Easter Pilots' Camp; Private Muriel Cousins, Whakatane making memorial medal at Trentham Military Camp; tug Tapuhi towing retiring tug Natone to Shelly Bay; launch Ede launched at Kaikoura; first guests at `Scotlands', the Women's Division of Federated Farmers rest-home at Onehunga, Auckland (Mrs W G Graham, Mrs M A Cruickshank, Mrs A E Escott and Mrs A E Bridge) Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1978 - 1979

From: Shore Bennett, Beverley, 1928- :[Group of 55 design drawings for leadlight windows, 1970-1996].

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-

Reference: A-324-020

Description: Design shows Christ as the Good Shepherd, with crook and lamb, with small rural scenes above and below. Beneath is the text: "Where your treasure is, there shall your heart be also". Paul Hutchins' name on the verso indicates that he was probably the maker (i.e. may have worked for Miller's Studios?) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - B S Bennett / Miller Studios Ltd / Dunedin / 1979; Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Verso - top right - Paul Hutchins Designer's inventory gives date as 1978. Date on item is 1979. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour panel, on card, 290 x 149 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1998.

Date: 1911

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-010253-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. . Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [ca 1870-1950]

By: Jamieson, John Arthur, -1951

Reference: MS-Papers-5090

Description: Contains J A Jamiesons reminiscences, poetry and some miscellaneous correspondence, receipts and notes, [ca 1870-1950]. Reminiscences describe Jamieson's life as a shepherd, farm worker and manager and working in various businesses in both the North and South Islands, mainly in the Kaikoura, Wairarapa and Waipawa areas. Also describes his farming life in the Korakonui area in the Waikato where his wife Elizabeth Jamieson won a ballot farm in 1911. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 14 folder(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript (some copies) Provenance: Donor is J A Jamieson's grandson

Date: [1832-1961]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/02B

Description: Stories, songs and radio scripts mainly relating to Leo Fowler's work with the NZBC. Including "Mainly about rabbits", "Peculiar pilgrimage: A memory of WB. Otorohonga" [Mr Bauke], "Sheep, shepherds, sheepdogs", "Bethlehem on Paekak: A New Zealand story", and "The bullocky and the tangi". Also includes programme notes from the "Annual Maori competitions" 1961, waiata and some excerpts of Phyllis Williams [aka Kirimamae] radio programmes about Maori music. Quantity: 1 folder(s).