Timber industry - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: 1910

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-065-008

Description: Shows a new European settlement near Ohakune, amongst an extensive tract of felled timber, with trees and bush in the background. Mount Ruapehu is in the distance. Other Titles - The above photograph depicts a pioneering scene near Ohakune, on the route of the Main Trunk railway, and shows the birth of a new settlement in the heart of the bush. In the background towers the majestic snow-clad peak of Ruapehu ... Extended Title - Supplement to: The Weekly News. Special Christmas Number. 1910. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 462 x 662 mm

Date: 1907

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-101

Description: Telegrams from Smith to Field, and from other people to Field; correspondence; legal documents and one telegram in Maori from Smith to Te Peehi Te Opitinene, Raitihi [sic] Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1947 - 1950

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to timber, the timber industry, wood products]

By: Wanganui herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-TIMBER-1948-01

Description: A pamphlet protesting timber control policies in the Wanganui area. Inside shows the British "Erith" progressive type kiln in Wanganui, "one of the largest and most effective timber seasoning kilns in the Dominion". It had been kept idle for years, despite its usefulness in aiding repatriation after the first world war. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet folded to 215 x 140 mm.

From: W B Chennells :Collection of maps

By: Masterton Public Library

Reference: MapColl-832.41gcr/[n.d.]/Acc.36737

Description: Map of timber block plan, depicting two timber mill sites along the Whanganui River, a saw mill beside the Kakahi Railway Station, grazing land, and several annotated comments on the logging potential of various forest areas containing Matai, Totora and Rimu. Also shows three flax mills, the Matapiki homestead (owned by L. Grace), and the government timber reserve. Shows abandoned and newly pegged railway route along the Whanganui River. Other Titles - Whanganui Note on map: 'Return to W.B. Chennells & Co. - land agents, Masterton'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on tracing paper, part coloured, scale [1:63 360], 42 x 43.8 cm.

Date: 1908-1909

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-102

Description: Includes draft deed re right of way, telegrams from Abbot[t] from Wanganui and Raetihi, and from Borlase, correspondence re P G Smith's loans, detailed summary of costs of Smith, copy of deed of covenant, Smith with Raetihi Timber Company, correspondence between Field and Donald McBeth re Smith,and Field with Smith Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1910

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper); Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-065-008-a

Description: Shows a new European settlement near Ohakune, amongst an extensive tract of felled timber, with trees and bush in the background. Mount Ruapehu is in the distance. Other Titles - The above photograph depicts a pioneering scene near Ohakune, on the route of the Main Trunk railway, and shows the birth of a new settlement in the heart of the bush. In the background towers the majestic snow-clad peak of Ruapehu ... Extended Title - Supplement to: The Weekly News. Special Christmas Number. 1910. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 462 x 662 mm

Date: [1900-1930]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-100

Description: Draft agreements and legal letters, undated telegrams, Smith to Field, valuation appraisal of timber on Smith's property by Ammunson, and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1905, [ca 1905], [192-?]

By: Arminoff, S (Mr), active 1976

Reference: PAColl-8827

Description: Photographs, mainly of timber and log transportation on the farm of C E Nordell (a Swedish immigrant), in the Atea/Nireaha area, Eketahuna County, in 1905, circa 1905 and early 1920s. Includes a photograph of Nordell's cattle in an enclosure. Photographers unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-068044 to 068048 Quantity: 5 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1950-1994

By: Peacock, Morice Gladstone, 1916-1995; Houpapa, Vonda Elsa Maureen, 1941-

Reference: PA-Group-00399

Description: Photographs of timber industry in the central North Island, Tangiwai disaster, conservation movement activities, events and personalities in the Taumarunui region. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints housed at PAColl-4875-1. Negatives housed at PAColl-4875-2. Transparencies housed at PAColl-4875-3. Quantity: 30000 Negatives (approximately). 3000 colour original transparency/ies. 1379 b&w original photographic print(s). 191 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Mrs Houpapa is the daughter of the late Morrie Peacock. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4875 to PA-Group-00399 in 2009.

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039571-G

Description: Horses on logging railway, Utiku. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Source of descriptive information - Notes on negative enclosure Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1946

Reference: MapColl-832.17gcrm/1946/Acc.29642

Description: A copy of a base map of Tongariro timber areas including state forests, the Whakapapa, Wanganui and Taringamutu Rivers to Lake Taupo, Tokaanu and the road from National Park to Taupo, has been used to identify ownership of various blocks of timber. A key indicates the ownership by the Crown, Native, Crown & Native, Cut-over, Committed, State Forest and Suggested Units for Exploitation, all of which are colour coded. Areas of suggested units for exploitation are named a) Waione, Waimanu 2G, Okahukura No.3. b) Orakura, Waiunu. c) Oraukura. d) Waimanu 2D, 2G, 2F. e) Waimanu 2G, 2F, 2A. f) Mangahouhou. g) Mangahouhou, Orakoura. h) Pukepoto. l&m) Puketapu. The base map includes rivers and streams, main highways, private roads, including distances to National Park and Mananui. The Pokaka Timber Company and Ketetahi Smg. Co are named. A note states that this plan was compiled for reference inspection S.A.C. Darby & C.T. Sando. August 1946. Includes the names of Hopkins, Speirs & Winger, C.P. & P.D. Smith, Weir & Kenny. Base map: Plan of Tongariro timber areas as at 26.7.1946 / S.A.C. Darby & C.T. Sando. [s.l.]: [s.n.], 1946. Title supplied by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, coloured, scale indeterminable, 71.9 x 73.6 cm.

Date: 1940

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to timber, the timber industry, wood products]

By: Ellis Veneer Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TIMBER-1940-01

Description: A thin wooden postcard advertising the uses for New Zealand wood. One side shows an illustration of a house on a hillside; and the other side shows an illustration of the tower at the Centennial Exhibition, 1940. (This latter is not a very clear image). Date uncertain. Ellis Veneer Company may have produced images of occasions from the past. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on both sides of wooden "card", 92 x 141 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2003.

By: Clevely, Roy Edwin, 1911-1992

Reference: PAColl-4060

Description: Photographs and negatives of Bunnythorpe Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/4-17605 to 17614, 17661 to 17767 Quantity: 117 b&w copy negative(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca1970s-ca1980s

From: Peacock, Morice Gladstone, 1916-1995 : Negatives, prints, register and minute book from 20th Century Photography studio, Taumarunui

By: Peacock, Morice Gladstone, 1916-1995; Houpapa, Vonda Elsa Maureen, 1941-

Reference: PA12-0356

Description: Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1920-1922]

From: Jobson, Joseph Frederick, 1900-1981 :Photographs of the Horopito and Erua areas, Ruapehu district

Reference: PAColl-10021-1

Description: Photographs of the Horopito and Erua areas, Ruapehu district, taken circa 1920-1922 by Mr J F Jobson. Images show outdoor scenes, particularly relating to bush logging, bush railways, and railway bridges/viaducts. Some show evidence of the 1918 fire at Horopito. Also three images of the Horopito Post Office where Mr Jobson worked before he married, two of a group on a hunting trip, and one each of the Waimarino and Horopito railway stations. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1 October 1925

By: Reed, Beth, active 2002

Reference: PA-Group-00220

Description: Panoramic photographs of the logging railway at the Ellis and Burnand timber mill at Ongarue, taken 1 October 1925, probably by R P Moore Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Panoramic prints Provenance: Donated by Mrs Beth Reed, Auckland, 2002

Date: 1971

From: Peacock, Morice Gladstone, 1916-1995 : Negatives, prints, register and minute book from 20th Century Photography studio, Taumarunui

By: Peacock, Morice Gladstone, 1916-1995; Houpapa, Vonda Elsa Maureen, 1941-

Reference: PA12-0383

Description: Felling of native timber by Fletcher's, Turangi in 1971, and farm dam or dew pond covered with one of the red water ferns Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1988-2000

From: Boyden, Ian Hamilton William, 1915-2001 : Reminiscences and family histories

Reference: MS-Papers-7091

Description: Reminiscences of Boyden describing the pioneering community of Ruaroa, a settlement near Dannevirke, in which he lived for 58 years. He was given information on earlier times by senior members of his family and the story begins with an historical summary of the area's development. Subjects covered include his father's arrival arrival at Ruaroa and his development of land won in a ballot, bringing bush into pasture, hunting, transport, the back country, school, pioneer women, local industry, roads, weather, Hunter's Mill, Nellie Evelyn White, Graham's Mill, the 1914-1918 war and livestock. He goes on to describe the first milking machines and the dairy industry, the Spanish flu, mail and delivery services, firewood and logging, characters and itinerants in the district, entertainment (including tin canning), the Country Women's Institute, radio, telephone, power, the car, health, the visit of Lord Bledisloe, storms, disasters and wind and the Second World War From 1945 he writes of changes in farming, utilities, dogs, education, local events and activities, sport, local celebrities and has reproductions of 27 labelled photographs Accompanying material - Funeral service leaflet for Boyden Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-0307-F

Description: Sawmilling yard and factory buildings "HUDSON BOILER FACTORY" and "KONKA" Factory painted on roof. Smokestack on building in centre. R.P. Moore's stamp on lower right corner. Konka board was a New Zealand invention which first appeared in 1914 and continued in use until the 1950s. Factory-made concrete board using pumice instead of sand. Produced by Bassett & Co. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - Bassett's Timber Yards. Wanganui. 3 copies" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.8 x 111.4 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Bassett & Company Ltd

Reference: Pan-0304-F

Description: Sawmilling timber yard. Bassett & Co Sash & Door Factory marked on buildings in centre. Two men working in centre aisle area. Chimney smoking behind. Houses and trees in background. R.P. Moore's circular stamp in right lower corner. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - "Bassett Sawmill Wanganui. 3 copies" [On brown adhesive tape] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.8 x 103.8 cm