Sooty shearwater

Date: 1869

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

By: Cooke, Albert Charles, 1836-1902; Bruce, Robert, 1839?-1918

Reference: E-043-q-048

Description: Wood engraving shows birds on cliff at sunset and in flight Extended Title - Spencer Gulf, South Australia Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 215 x 275 mm

Date: 2000

From: [Menus and restaurant ephemera of quarto size]

Reference: Eph-B-DINING-2000-01

Description: Lists menu for this bar at 1142 Tutanekai Street, Rotorua. Includes Wontons Pork and Watercress / Puha; Muttonbird pate; Mussel fritters; Ika Mata (Raw fish); Tua Tua chowder; Kumara and Puha quiche; Kumara wedges; Rewana sandwiches, as well as other lamb, beef and chicken dishes. Dated by the donor. In 2007, Rotorua residents stated that this restaurant lasted only a couple of years. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on flyer.. Physical Description: Offset print on flyer, 295 x 107 mm.

Date: [1935], 1945

From: Fell, Howard Barraclough, 1917-1994: Papers relating to Francis Hutchinson

Reference: MSX-4553

Description: Essays by Hutchinson, who described himself as a NZ naturalist, and edited by Fell. Topics include botany, ornithology, marine and freshwater biology, farming, water life, the Hawke's Bay earthquake and other aspects of natural history. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 4 February - 19 March 2013 - 04 Feb 2013 - 19 Mar 2013

By: Karaitiana, Robert Leggett Paul, 1930-; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-; Clucas, Rosemary, active 2013-

Reference: OHColl-1077-1

Description: Interview with Paul Karaitiana by Helen Frizzell. The interview focuses on Karaitiana's whanau and family land, his blade shearing career, and muttonbirding at Pohowaitai Island. The interview also discusses language and Te Reo Maori, and Karaitiana's thoughts on his cultural identity. Awards/funding - Interview funded by the Ngai Tahu Fund Abstracted by - Helen Frizzell Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Includes photographs, scans of newspaper clippings, whakapapa information and other materials Arrangement: Digital files arranged as OHDL-002186 to OHDL-002188 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 20 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 5 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word files. 1 interview(s). 9.34 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7785, OHDL-002187. Search dates: 1930 - 2013

Date: 2 Dec 1998 - 02 Dec 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Ashwell, Reginald George, 1914-; Christiansen, Pat, active 1998

Reference: OHInt-0464/01

Description: Reginald Ashwell was born in Bluff in 1914. Discusses his children, parents, grandparents and kaumatua. Mentions his wife Peg worked in the Bluff Theatre. Talks about being in the army and World War II. Discusses oysters, muttonbirding and the Irwin's (Urwin's) Fishing Company. Talks about the Stewart Island ferries, the harbour and Bluff shops in the 1920s. Discusses his hobby of making walking sticks and woodwork. Interviewer(s) - Pat Christiansen Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008600; OHC-008601; OHC-008602; OHC-008603 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2678. Photograph of Reginald Ashwell and Reginald Ashwell (with wife Peg?)

Date: 11-12 Dec 1994 - 11 Dec 1994 - 12 Dec 1994

By: Huria, Gabrielle, active 1995; Fife, Noeline, 1917?-; Fife, George, active 1940s-1995

Reference: OHColl-0340-1

Description: Noeline and George Fife talk in depth about their lives on Rakiura, Stewart Island. Noeline backgrounds family, education and childhood experiences. Describes her arrival, settlement and marriage on Rakiura in 1948, Woodley House, employment, the population and community, native flora and fauna, birth of her children in Invercargill, changing forms of transportation, social activities, supplies from the mainland and environmental issues. Recites a poem written by her son Rewi Fife. Outlines and discusses numerous native birds found on Stewart Island. George provides details of the local fishing industry and his career as a fisherman. Also discusses mutton birds and muttonbirding practices, whales and whaling, seals, old timers and hermits on the Island, the hospital and medical facilities, the southern lights Aurora Australis, weather conditions and various natural phenomena. Recounts modernisation of the Stewart Island settlement over time. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Huria Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDT-0429, OHDT-0430, OHDT-0431, OHDT-0432 Quantity: 2 DAT tape(s) -120 mins. 2 DAT tape(s) - 90 mins. 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 7 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4669.

Date: 15 Jul 1996

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part two

By: Tangaroa, William Tamu, 1922-1999

Reference: OHInt-0633/4

Description: William Tangaroa was born in 1922 in Wellington. Gives the origins of Ngati Whatua. Talks about his grandmother Mere Huia Shaw and her marriage for the purpose of holding land. Describes how her grandparents settled at Dairy Flat then Reweti (Rewiti). Describes their original home of nikau and raupo and the home that was built in 1928. Describes the site of the original Reweti marae in the hills. Discusses missionaries Reverend Marsden and Reverend Selwyn and Ngati Whatua. Discusses his father, John Tangaroa, who attended Three Kings Secondary School and Wesley College with Jack Nathan. Gives details of the background of his mother, Emma Smith. Talks about the Depression, the children carting water for the gardens and his grandfather being blinded digging rushes. Describes the selling of produce from the Reweti gardens at the market. Discusses the sacred Reweti mountain, Puketapu, where burials were made. Explains the way people were buried according to their place in society. Notes that Tauwhare Hill was a recovery place for warriors. Mentions the quarry in the area which was closed as a result of lots of accidents. Discusses fishing methods and the catching of eel, koura, toheroa, paua, mussels and other species. Describes drawing the oil from mutton birds. Describes how work was done with horses and mentions the breaking in of brumbies. Mentions how the moving sand buried native bush and the role of marram grass in stabilising sand. Mentions his schooling at Helensville and leaving school and working in a bush camp. Describes the work. Describes planting marram during the Depression and the finding of midden. Describes being manpowered to do farm work in World War II. Mentions marriage. Mentions the South Head forestry settlement. Comments on the continuation of early customs at Reweti including herbal knowledge, forecasting weather and food preparation. Discusses tapu and the identification of tapu places. Mentions the Brynderwyn bus accident and identifying victims. Describes how the sacred mountain, Puketapu, is now planted in pine. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3321.

Date: 21 Oct 1984 - 26 Oct 1984

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: OHInt-0834-122

Description: Two tracks: Adults, communicating, preparing for dawn departure; calling on ground, in or near nesting burrows; distance 5m; South East Island, Chatham group; level site in bush. Track 1: weather fine mild calm, recorded 21 Oct 1984, 0445 hrs. Track 2: weather fine mild, moderate NW wind; recorded 26 Oct 1984, 0430 hrs. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-1691 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 2 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other see catalogue cards 34. Search dates: 1984

Date: [ca 1970s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7045

Description: Photographs of the Hauraki Gulf area taken circa 1970s by John Ingle. Views include islands off Cape Colville; sooty shearwater; Cape Colville; Cuvier island including the settlement from the sea, the lighthouse and landing supplies; loading supplies in Auckland; seas breaking over the bow of a ship; the launch La Rita on a fishing trip; landing place on Boulder Beach, Little Barrier Island; Auckland Wharves; herring gulls in the Gulf; Rangitoto Island and Tiritiri Matangi Island from the Gulf; fire on Whangaparaoa Peninsula. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [1890-1972]

From: Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand : Records

Reference: fMS-Papers-6064

Description: Comprises clippings on Disappointment Island, the conquest of Western Samoa, `Old man of the Colonial Office' by Arthur Grimble, population explosion in the Pacific by Kenneth Cumberland, `The Story of Pitt's Island' by Edward Wakefield (NZ Graphic 1890), `From Stewart Island to Siberia' about the muttton-bird, `A Coral speck in the Pacific' (Sun, Auckland, 1930), `Castaways of wind-swept isles of the Southern Ocean' and `The saga of the Sinclairs' (Sun, Christchurch, 1931, 1934) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 17-27 Jul 1998 - 17 Jul 1998 - 27 Jul 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Cairns, Beth, active 1991; Leitch, Sarah Susan, 1908-2001

Reference: OHInt-0464/12

Description: Sarah Leitch was born at Colac Bay in 1908. Describes her schooling and living for some time with the Cootes family of Otaki. Recalls returning home to Southland and working at hotels including the Grand Hotel and the Club Hotel and as a housekeeper for Mrs Lillicrap. Talks about the Depression years and muttonbirding from Big South Cape and Puwai. Describes washing day. Recalls visiting her grandfather Henry Davis at Morven. Describes marrying at the Court House at Invercargill and where they got their furniture from. Mentions Bells Tearooms and Deschlers Hotel. Describes the naming of their son Charles Graham Leitch who lives in the United States. Discusses trips to the States and time at Disneyland. Interviewer(s) - Beth Cairns Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008616 - OHC-008617 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract OHA-2689. Copy of a photo of Sarah Bates in 1924 and photo taken in 1998

From: Various artists :[Original illustrations for the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A H McLintock, 1966].

Reference: A-332-103

Description: A seated muttonbird or sooty shearwater Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on tracing paper, on card, 145 x 243 mm

Date: 1952 - 1955

By: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994

Reference: E-503

Description: Contains sketches of details of blossom trees, banded dotterel and chick, pied stilt chick, cottage and garden under trees, baby thrush on gorse branch, grey warbler's nest in gorse hedge, landscapes with river, sprig of poroporo with berries, sheep and lambs, barn and hay shelter, tuatara, redpoll, kiwi, bush hawk (karearea), wood pigeon, owl, tui, korimako, female kaka, grey duck, little blue penguin and baby, muttonbird, little grey warbler, shining cuckoo, kohia (climber), white-faced heron, silvereye, kingfisher, goose, domestic cats, bush scene. Dated to early 1950s, as two works are dated 1953. Inscriptions: Some sketches titled; two dated and signed. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Spiral-bound sketchbook of 17 leaves, 188 x 275 mm.

Date: n d

From: Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2366-430

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1974 - 1975

By: Acres, Avis, 1910-1994

Reference: D-029-005

Description: Chart of 9 New Zealand birds, with portion of text beside each illustration. Shows: fairy prion, Pacific godwit, redbilled gull, blackbilled gull, wandering albatross, blackbacked gull, banded dotterel, sooty shearwater, rock pigeon. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Sheet D First edition of "Identification guide to New Zealand birds", was published in Wellington in 1975. Quantity: 9 watercolour(s) on board with text.. Physical Description: Watercolours on board, 1150 x 503 mm.

By: St. John's in the City (Church : Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: A-285-030/032

Description: Watercolour shows silhouette of tree in right foreground, with outlet to the sea in background, purple hills, and red streaked sky. Pencil drawings show: "N.N.W. depression force 9, nimbostratus, rain, catspaws"; and "Above the turmoil of the storm, three skuas hung motionless and a sooty soared without effort". Came with architectural plans dating from 1928-1955 - probably from 1950-60s. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (on pencil works): [Titles as quoted above] Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one sheet.. 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, sizes vary Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts MS-Group-268, in about 1994..

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-013-4

Description: Shows a sooty petrel or shearwater in profile, swimming in a body of water, with mountains in the distance. The printed card into which the painting is inserted reads 'Many happy returns of the day' in gold ink, with a decorative border Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Procellaria fuliginosa [in ink]; Recto - bottom right - Sooty petrel [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on celluloid, 73 x 110 mm inserted into card 113 x 159 mm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-013

Description: Page of original drawings of native birds on celluloid, prepared as greeting cards and presented as a sample album Quantity: 4 watercolour(s). Physical Description: 1 album page containing four watercolours on celluloid, 73 x 110 mm inserted into cards 113 x 159 mm

Date: [1890]

From: Pearson album

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

Reference: PA1-f-048-30-1

Description: A diorama depicting an adult mutton bird and chick perched on a group of rocks. At the base and climbing up the rocks are five tuatara. Ferns and other native plants grow among the rocks. Photographed by the Burton Brothers in 1890. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 15 cm, mounted on album page

Date: 1990

From: Power, Elaine, 1931- :[Bird studies prepared for four "Birds of New Zealand" books. 1987-1991.]

Reference: A-374-089

Description: Shows several birds at rest on the sea: a flesh-footed shearwater, sooty shearwater, Buller's shearwater, Hutton's shearwater, little shearwater and fluttering shearwater. Description details appear on tracing paper overlay. Artwork prepared for publication in Elaine Power's "Sea and shore birds of New Zealand" (1990). This image appears on page 18 of this book. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sheet 300 x 205 mm, with tracing paper overlay.