Auctioneers

Date: 1922 - 1926

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0615/0617

Description: Plan dated 21st February 1922 shows plan view of the ground and first floor with offices and the auction room. Also shows some elevations of details. Plans dated 1926 show elevations of altered panelling and a plan view of part of the ground floor with alterations marked Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on dressed linen, diazo photoprint, and ink on dressed linen, sizes varying

Date: 23 December 1991

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1991/4289-F

Description: Auctioneer Robert Best and customers outside the Tory Street fruit and vegetables market, Wellington. They are standing by wooden crates of lettuces and boxes of cherries. The customers are inspecting a box of cherries. Photographed 23 December 1991 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: 1974

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-045-005

Description: Shows floor plan on site, cross section A-A, and elevation to Downer Street. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on tracing paper 580 x 805 mm.

Date: [ca 23 Jan 1993]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1993/0371

Description: Dunbar Sloane auctioneer Andrew Grigg pushing a 1958 Studebaker Champion car into a car park alongside the auction rooms in Maginnity Street, Wellington. The car was to be auctioned a few days later. Photographs taken circa 23 January 1993 by Evening Post photographer Ross Giblin. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) negative strips with 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

Date: ca1950-ca1955

From: Thorp, Nigel fl 1995 :Photographs

By: Ayson, Graeme, 1912-1990; Lowry, Vanya, 1943-

Reference: PAColl-4970

Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of the interior of auction rooms probably in Masterton ca 1950s Photograph of oven designed to measure the moisture content of cheese Portrait of Boby and Irene Lowry on their wedding day on 9 April 1936 Photograph of Buller Press, Wesport, demolishing old Warfdale press Photographs of Bob Lawry private press books and printing on display, taken by his daughter Vanya Lowry Aerial photographs of World War One battlefields in France, specifically Somme Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1893

From: F W Niven & Co. :Views of Eltham and Stratford N Z [ca 1893]. F W Niven & Co. [lith] Ballarat, [Vic[toria, ca 1893]

Reference: D-002-003-01

Description: A detail of a large sheet of illustrated advertisements. This view, top left, shows the interior of the auction rooms of Norman Liardet and Co Physical Description: Chromolithograph, ca 140 x 118 mm

Date: 1893

From: F W Niven & Co. :Views of Eltham and Stratford N Z [ca 1893]. F W Niven & Co. [lith] Ballarat, [Vic[toria, ca 1893]

Reference: D-002-003-02

Description: A detail of a large sheet of illustrated advertisements. This view, upper left, shows the exterior of the auction rooms of Norman Liardet and Co on Broadway, Stratford Physical Description: Chromolithograph, ca 140 x 118 mm

Date: 1952-1953

From: J H Bethune and Company Ltd : Records

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1953-01

Description: Calendar shows illustrations of the company's original wooden building, and of the more modern stonework building. A calendar pad for 1953 is attached; under it is a listing of the types of services the company offers: sales, auctions, management of estates, valuations and insurance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and offset print, on light card 370 x 245 mm, with attached 12-leaf 107 x 187 mm.

Date: 1891

From: Swan family : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0109-151

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1929-1951

From: Thorp, Nigel, fl 1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5400-06

Description: The folder is a collection of receipts, accounts, a catalogue of a `Great Timber Auction Sale' at Te Whiti (1945), an Inland Revenue death duties inventory of furniture, effects etc and a License to carry on business as land agent...1921-22 (1929)

Date: 1910 - 1950

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-91-1833

Description: Shows foundation plan, ground and first floor plans, of an auctioneer's premises. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on tracing paper, 460 x 587 mm.

Date: [May or August 1974]

From: Hewson, Paul, 1948- :Hawera, a personal view

Reference: PAColl-8796-20

Description: Eades and Quinn Auction Room, Princes Street, Hawera, photographed May-August 1974 by Paul Hewson. Shows Frank Eades, auctioneer. Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 15.7 x 23.4 cm, on mount 38 x 30.5 cm

Date: 1862

Reference: 1/2-004529-F

Description: A view along Stafford Street with auction rooms on the left and two women walking on the pavement on the right. Photographer unidentified. From an original print labelled "Timaru, South Canterbury, 1862" location unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1939

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0619/0622

Description: Plans, elevations and details for alterations to bathroom / washrooms and toilets Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil, coloured pencil, ink, on tracing paper, sizes varying

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-038

Description: Shows an auction in progress. A chair, clock and chest (Bank of Faith) have all been bought and are being carried away. On the lower left is the headstone of the coalheaver. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 300 x 475 mm

Date: 20 July 1880

From: Keesing, G S :Photograph of the National Hotel, Cambridge and a Maori man identified as Mohi

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PAColl-0711-1

Description: View of the National Hotel, Cambridge with a large crowd standing on the balcony and around the front. Photographer was Charles Spencer. Inscriptions: Mount verso - centre right - National Hotel Cambridge 20/7/80 Waikato Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 205mm x 151mm on mount 279mm x 228mm

Date: 1907

By: Ferguson & Hicks (Firm); Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-E-REAL-ESTATE-1907-01

Description: Shows locality plan and map of the sections which lie on Owen, Charles, Edwin, and Richard Streets, Lower Hutt, off the Western Hutt Road. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on sheet 570 x 870 mm. Provenance: Donated by Les Cleveland in 1996.

Date: 1870

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-023

Description: A view of a range of tall mountains, possibly The Remarkables, with a small building labelled D Powell in the foreground Denis Powell ran an auction house, named D Powell, and a separate family hotel in Ballarat Street, Queenstown, from the late 1860s until 1876. It is likely that he can be identified with the small building labelled D Powell Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 88 x 153 mm.

Date: 1929 - 1930

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0623/0626

Description: Mezzanine floor plans with some detail of screen at front of counter Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink, diazo photoprint with watercolour, pencil and watercolour and pencil on paper, sizes varying

Date: 10 January 1986 - 13 January 1986 - 10 Jan 1987

From: NZOHA Fletcher Challenge Ltd Oral History Project

By: Trotter, Ronald Ramsay (Sir), 1927-2010

Reference: OHInt-0001/12

Description: Sir Ronald Trotter born in Hawera in 1927. Describes childhood in Hawera and years as a boarder at Wanganui Collegiate, Victoria University and Lincoln College. Refers to other students: G S Bogle, a Rhodes Scholar; Robin Cook; Bill Shires; David Farquhar; Sir Thomas Hunter; Tony Latham; Shayle Searle; Herbert Caselberg. Talks about compulsory military training and exemptions. Outlines his career from its beginnings as a stock agent/junior auctioneer with Farmer's Auctioneering Co, Hawera to the position of Chairman and Chief Executive of Fletcher Challenge. Mentions others connected to Farmer's Auctioneering: J W (Jack) de Gruchy (later manager of NZ Meat Producers' Board); Ernie Pike; Jack Monteith; Sir John Ormond - describes the Ormond homestead at Wallingford. Topics covered for that period include: rabbit problem; aerial topdressing; giant discing of hill country; role of stock and station agents; main competitors to Farmers - Williams & Kettle, Dalgety, Murray Roberts Co., NMA and Wright Stephenson who came from South Island. Talks about Hawkes Bay Farmers' Co-operative Association. Describes his experience with Wright Stephenson. Mentions Sir Clifford Plimmer. Explains the different styles and techniques of auctioneering. Reflects on Wright Stephenson/NMA merger (1972). Refers to attempted takeover bid by Vavasour & Co. Ltd and its possible consequences. Backgrounds appointment by Government to guide Tasman Pulp and Paper Co out of its difficulties in 1978. Mentions Graham Valentine of Barr Burgess and Stewart, John Cook, Cliff Terry, Frank Renouf and John Fair. Gives impressions of Sir John Marshall (National MP). Gives background to Tasman becoming a subsidiary of Fletcher Holdings (1979). Describes major industrial dispute with reference to John Murphy and Bill Anderson. Discusses mergers and expansion. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 55 Tutere Street, Waikanae Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 7.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 0156.