Meat industry and trade - New Zealand - Hawke's Bay Region

Date: 1887

By: Dobson, Robert, 1852-1893

Reference: MS-Papers-2907

Description: Contract for carriage of frozen meat from Napier to England; signed by Robert Dobson on behlaf of 13 Hawkes Bay sheepfarmers; names, addresses and quantity of carcasses to be delivered listed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms

Date: 1964

By: Hastings Bacon Company Ltd; Fuller, Geoffrey Francis, 1925-2011

Reference: E-279-q-095

Description: A card commemorating fifty years of continuous trading by Vogtherr's. Inside contains a print of a red billed gull (Tarapunga. Akiaki. Larus novae-hollandiae), one of a set of ten New Zealand sea birds especially drawn by Geoffrey Fuller. [No 80 of 100]. Printed by Swailes Printing Co, Napier. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) memento card. Physical Description: Offset print on folded card 250 x 180 mm

Date: 1968

By: Hastings Bacon Company Ltd; Liley, Peter, active 1960s-1970s

Reference: E-279-q-097

Description: A Christmas card sent to clients of Vogtherr's Hastings Bacon Company Ltd, Dec 1968. Inside is a screenprint by Peter Liley depicting the rock carving of a taniwha. No 35 of 150 prints. The outer folded card quotes from E J Wakefield's Adventure in New Zealand on the subject of curing hams and bacons Christchurch Art Gallery has a copy of this print, from the collection of William A Sutton, artist and teacher at Canterbury School of Fine Art Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signed and dated in ink: Petery Liley 1968 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint with linocut and hand colouring on card, 152 x 100 mm pasted in printed folded card 262 x 190 mm

Date: 1964

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to meat, the meat industry, cookery. 1950-1969]

By: Hastings Bacon Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MEAT-1964-01

Description: A card commemorating fifty years of continuous trading by Vogtherr's. Inside contains a print of a banded dotterel drawn by Geoffrey Fuller. Quantity: 1 memento card. Physical Description: Offset print on folded card 250 x 180 mm.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: de Hamel, Michael Alexander, 1949-

Reference: PA12-10961

Description: Workers processing meat at the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Meat Company's freezing works. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: de Hamel, Michael Alexander, 1949-

Reference: PA12-10962

Description: Workers processing meat at the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Meat Company's freezing works. Quantity: 6 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Sheehan, Grant, 1950-

Reference: PA12-10970

Description: Views of New Zealand freezing works. Six show aspects of meet processing operations. Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 10 December 1953

By: Vogtherr, Gordon Ernest, active 1942-2003

Reference: 1/2-201329-F

Description: Passport portrait of Ernest George Frederick Vogtherr, bacon curer, businessman and art collector, taken on 10 December 1953 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 12.5 x 10 cm

Date: [between 1920-1939]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: 1/1-004794-G

Description: Inside a freezing works, probably in the Hastings district, Hawkes Bay. Shows rows of carcasses handing on hooks, and seven workers standing alongside. Photograph taken between 1920-1939 by Henry Norford Whitehead. Other - Note on back of file print reads "Sheep and lamb at weigh scales end prior to cooling floor." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [1919-circa 1921]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: 1/1-019279-G

Description: Freezing workers with sheep carcasses at the freezing works at Whakatu, Hastings district. Tom Cunningham is the Maori man sixth from right (in striped singlet). Behind him is John (Jack) Palmer (the shorter man, fourth in line from the right of frame). Photograph taken between 1919 and circa 1921 by Henry Norford Whitehead. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Tom Cunningham and John Palmer identified by Library clients. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: 1/1-019278-G

Description: Freezing workers by sheep carcasses at the freezing works at Whakatu, Hastings district. Photograph taken between 1920s-1930s by Henry Norford Whitehead. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative