Post office buildings - New Zealand - Otago Region

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: 17 January 1988

From: Ritchie, Peter :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1303-01

Description: Interior view of Owaka Post Office showing the mail sorting table, taken 27 January 1988 by Peter Ritchie. Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Inscriptions: Verso - centre right - OWAKA 19/28 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.4 x 23 cm

Date: 27 January 1988

From: Ritchie, Peter :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1303-02

Description: View of Owaka, Otago, from the Post Office, taken 27 January 1988 by Peter Ritchie. Shows a flag flying from the top of the Post Office. Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - OWAKA 19/28 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print 21 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca 1880s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-23

Description: View of the Cargill monument in The Exchange, Princes Street, Dunedin. The clock tower of the Post Office can be seen left of centre. Several horse-drawn trams are in The Exchange area; one at the bottom of High Street. Groups of men are standing and sitting around the monument which has gas lamps on all sides. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, ca 1880s. From `New Zealand through the camera' series of photographs Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 7723 - Princes St, Dunedin; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15 x 20 cm on mount 22.6 x 29.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Sloper, Charles, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2292-F

Description: Panoramic view of the township of Roxburgh looking over a road which runs across the foreground. Buildings include, from far left, the Grand Hotel, several shops, then the Commercial Hotel centre left. On the right the Roxburgh Post & Telegraph Office and far right the Roxburgh Shoeing and General Forge. Vehicles include a car parked on the left of the Commercial Hotel (number plate: NZ55-216), a Royal Mail White Star Bus (Dunedin, Pembroke, Queenstown) run by Dunedin-Wanaka Motors Ltd. Passengers include women and children. A group of people are standing between the bus and a large taxi carrying six passengers, in the centre of the image (number plate: NZ86-338). A man with a bicycle is standing outside the Post Office. Hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - C. Sloper. Commercial Hotel, Roxburgh. 3 sepia; Marginal notes on negative - 1 1 1 1 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 115.9 cm

Date: 1935

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating the the Post Office and postal and telegraph services]

Reference: Eph-A-POST-1935-02

Description: Folded invitation card shows an illustration of the Dunedin Post Office building on the front. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on folded sheet, 215 x 160 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 19 September 2013, part of lot 320, originally collected by Melville E Hankins. Transfers: Collection accessioned in Ephemera; photographic material transferred to Photographic Archive..

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: PAColl-7355

Description: Two men outside the post office; St Michael's Anglican Church; the county council chambers; and the Presbyterian church. All have similar captions. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004350 to 004353 Quantity: 4 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: ca 1913

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7616

Description: Postcards of Balclutha Railway Station, Post Office, band rotunda and a general view of the town. Photographer was Muir & Moodie. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1937-1950

From: Jones, Winifred, fl 1950-2004 :Photographs relating to Frederick Jones

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PA1-o-1230

Description: Album containing photographs relating to the work of Frederick Jones as Postmaster General and Minister of Defence, including photographs of opening ceremonies for post offices around New Zealand, the Jones family, the Achilles arriving at Auckland, and Jones meeting various personalities. Album also contains souvenir items from the opening of the Chief Post Office, Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather bound album 24.5 x 31.2 cm

Date: 8 December 1984 - 08 Dec 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Jewiss, Israel, 1895-1986

Reference: OHInt-0070/07

Description: Ray Jewiss recalls family background and childhood St Bathans, Central Otago, work as message boy at St Bathans Post Office, R W Noake the postmaster, details of layout, delivery of gold through mail system, courting couples, hotel, duties of message boy, communications, Mr Hazeldine (?) the magistrate, the banks - Bank of New Zealand and Bank of New South Wales, working at Telegraph Branch Dunedin in 1913, boarding houses in Wellington, learning telegraphy at Telegraph School Wellington, work as a telegraphist at Caversham Post Office, Dunedin, uniform and clothing, salary. Discusses Mr Veitch the Chief Engineer at Dunedin, work at Roslyn Post Office Dunedin, work as junior clerk at the Engineers' Office in Dunedin, female employees in the Post Office, social life, visit by Sir Joseph Ward to the St Bathans' Post Office. Details work as a teacher at the Post and Telegraph Correspondence School, Wellington 1918-1951, various staff, H T Dawson, the standard of teaching, promotion, team spirit in the Post Office, retirement. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - At Ray Jewiss's home at Howick, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000792B - OHC-000794 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.29 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 117. Search dates: 1895 - 1984

Date: 05 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Lavender, William Fretwell Alma, 1909-1991

Reference: OHInt-0070/18

Description: Bill Lavender recalls family background, childhood in Oamaru, scarlet fever epidemic in ca 1919, work as a message boy at Oamaru Post Office in 1923, hours, amount of telegrams, uniform, lighting, transport, salary, telegrams and secrecy, status of Second Division as opposed to the first in the Post Office, morse training, promotion to postman in 1925, daily routines, postman's uniform, mail priorities, Post Office socials, busy periods, changing to telephone exchange operator Oamaru 1927-1942, reasons for change, salary, hours of work, training, equipment - Western Electric Rotary, toll calls, party lines, procedures, public reluctance to use telephones, compares manual and automatic exchanges, night shifts, discipline and paid holidays, improvements made by Post Office Association. Describes call up in World War II, reasons for selecting Air Force, in Wellington as telephone operator, posting to Guadalcanal, accommodation, climate, type of work, becoming instructor at Herd Street Post Office Training School in 1944 teaching telephone operator recruits, return to Oamaru as a supervisor after the war, recalls changes that had taken place, satellite exchanges, duties, details of shifts, Post Office as a career, anecdotes of incidents while a postman, telephone exchange loyalty, women in exchange work, social life, retirement, marriage. Venue - Oamaru Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - Bill Lavender's home at 246 Thames Street, Oamaru Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001246 - OHC-001248 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.14 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 158. Search dates: 1909 - 1985

Date: 06 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: McBride, Robert Dryden, 1910-1986

Reference: OHInt-0070/19

Description: Robert McBride recalls family background, childhood, joining Post Office as a cadet, duties, life as a boarder in Wellington, salary, checking telephone accounts, sorting postal notes, discipline, hours of work, sick leave, annual leave, work at the public service garage in ca 1930, duties, staff, Post Office fleet, motor repairs, work as assistant dispatch clerk, impressions of Napier after the earthquake in 1931, mail service contracts, reasons for transferring to Chief Postmaster's Office Dunedin - Clerical Branch, Ted Kerr, work at Post Office Savings Bank Dunedin, telegram dispatch room, work involved, the 1935 greetings telegram deluge. Describes transfer to Invercargill 1936-1958, type of work, missing mail, mail deliveries, salaries during Depression 1930s, inspectors, details of records work, enlisting in 1940 for service in World War II, work in Divisional Signals as radio operator in Italy and Egypt, involved in Battle of Sidi Rezegh, radio reception difficulties at Cassino, return to clerk in mail services in Invercargill in 1946, changes after the war, work as manager at Invercargill Post Office ca 1956, reporting system, work as Manager of Dunedin Post Office 1958, work as manager at Christchurch Post Office in 1959, background to appointment as Chief Postmaster at Timaru in 1960, state of discipline, staff relations, introduction of decimal currency in 1967, major changes in the Post Office, impressions of J B Darnell and Sir Dawson Donaldson (Directors General), retirement. Venue - Timaru Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - Robert McBride's home at 116 Wai-iti Road, Timaru Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001249 - OHC-001251 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.27 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 159. Search dates: 1910 - 1985

Date: [192-?]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001362-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1893

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025835-G

Description: Telegraph Office, Dunedin. Interior view. Shows men at their desks. Photograph taken in 1893 by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1978

From: McGill, D K :Negatives of South Island 'ghost towns'

Reference: 35mm-00898-e-F

Description: Deserted post office building, St Bathans, Otago, photographed by David McGill in 1978. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. This building was still standing in 1989, with a residence on the upper floor. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1917]

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-006845-G

Description: Looking along High Street, Dunedin, with the Telegraph Office on the left. Photograph taken ca 1917 by Frederick George Radcliffe. Source of descriptive information - Date of photograph from Radcliffe register compiled by Stan R Goodwin, held in Turnbull Library Pictures Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - High Street Dunedin NZ FGR 5928 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

By: Allen, Joseph Weaver, 1821-1886

Reference: PA2-0013

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

By: Allen, Joseph Weaver, 1821-1886

Reference: PA2-0014

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

Date: 2013

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0025458

Description: Depicts Dunedin mail processing facilities through the years. In the 1930s, the chief post office is a grand building. In the 1990s, there is a smaller New Zealand Post depot office. In 2013, there is a hand holding a smart phone with a new email message. Refers to the closure of the Dunedin mail processing centre, resulting in the loss of 73 jobs as part of a nationwide restructuring. (Otago Daily Times, 26 June 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1871

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-001991-F

Description: The Thames Street Bridge over Oamaru Creek and the Post and Telegraph office on the right. Taken in 1871. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Thames Street Bridge, Oamaru. Built. 1860.; Recto - left of image - The bridge over Oamaru Creek in Thames Street 1871, [word(s) missing here] bath on brackets - On right is the Post and Telegraph Office. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).