Petroleum refineries - New Zealand - Northland Region
Transparency slides
Date: [1950s-1970s]
From: Nicholls, Trevor, 1929- :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes
Reference: PA12-7485
Description: Colour slides of various parts of New Zealand, taken 1950s-1970s by Trevor Nicholls. Includes: 1. Whangaroa Harbour, St Paul's Rock ca 1972, 2. Te Pahi, 3-4. Marsden Point 1976, 5. Mangamuka Forest, 6. Formation at Kerr Bluff (North Cape), 7. Cape Reinga, 8. Church at Russell, 9-12 Piercy Island, 13. Pompallier House, 14. Waimate Mission House, 15. Warkworth Satellite dish, 16. Lyttelton, 17. Addington railcar, 18. Dunedin 1950s, 19-20. Church Havelock (New), 21. Brooklyn mid 1950s (from Washington Ave), 22. Foxton, flax mid 1950s, 23. Wesleyhaven, Naenae mid-late 1960s, 24. Statue at Paraparaumu Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour film negatives
Energy, photographs relating to the petroleum industry
Date: [1980s]
From: Sheffield House Publications Collection
Reference: PA12-10836
Description: Energy: photographs relating to the petroleum industry in New Zealand. Includes views of the Marsden Point oil refinery, and holding tanks at Onehunga, Auckland. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies.
Whangarei Heads and Marsden Point refinery
Date: [1980s]
From: Sheffield House Publications Collection
By: de Hamel, Michael Alexander, 1949-
Reference: PA12-10812
Description: Photographs of Whangarei Heads and the Marsden Point oil refinery. Quantity: 8 colour original transparency/ies.
Sing along for 1982
Date: 31 December 1981
From: Minhinnick, Gordon, 1902-1992 :[111 original pencil and ink cartoons. 1930s-1980s]
Reference: C-171-066
Description: Shows five hippopotamuses wallowing in mud. A newspaper clipping headed 'A Happy New Year for Hippopotamuses' is stuck to the top left hand corner of the image and states that the hippos of Auckland Zoo will get a new enclosure in 1982. One of the hippos is in the likeness of Robert Muldoon. The remaining four hippos are labelled with the names of proposed Think Big projects: Aramoana, Marsden Point, Mobil and N.Z. Steel. Large sums of money are written in the mud. Above the hippos, an adaptation of the song 'The Hippopotamus' is quoted: "Dough, dough, glorious dough / Nothing quite like it for making things go / So borrow and follow / Down to the hollow, / And there let us wallow / In I.O.U. dough!". Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Sing along for 1982 [in pencil]; Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick. [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen, Letraset, newspaper clipping and pencil on paper, 390 x 520 mm
Hydrocracker unit reactor lifted by crane, Marsden Point refinery, New Zealand
Date: 1984
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP-Energy-Oil-01
Description: The last of four hydrocracker unit reactors lifed into place by a 1000 tonne Gottwald crane at the Marsden Point Refinery. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1984. This photograph was recieved by the Evening Post 16 April 1984. It may not have been published in the Post as the usual date stamp indicating publication is not on the back of the print. At the time this was the heaviest life ever achieved in New Zealand, and a world record for a mobile crane lift. (info from caption with print). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24.2 x 19.1 cm