Places

Date: 1878-1981

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: 81-295

Description: Records include ledgers, staff records, cash books, letter books (1900-1910), various documents (letters, insurance policies, reminiscences, deeds, and mortgages), Board of Directors' records (1962-1975), records of subsidiary and related companies, legal correspondence, killing records, newspaper clippings (1907-1969), share registers and share records (including indexes), and records of the Fellmongery Department (including staff, stock and cash) Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also 78-047, 87-080, 91-256 Petone meat processing plant Quantity: 7 folder(s). 118 volume(s). 47 box(es). 15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans - To Ephemera Collection - 1 box - To Photographic Archive - 3 boxes - To Serials Collection - MIRINZ bulletin (refrigeration) No 2, 1974; Thomson news No 4 May 1972 - To Book Collections - Associated North Island freezing companies of NZ. General report, 1912; Petone Borough Council dairy regulation by-law, 1911; Petone Borough Council heavy traffic by-law, 1905; Petone Borough Council waterworks by-law, 1904; Petone Borough Council drainage & sanitary by-law, 1911.

Date: [ca 1860s-1930s]

By: Brown, Byron Paul, 1866-1947; Billens Studio; Butterfield, Frederic Augustus, active 1938; Herrmann, Richard, -1892; Kinsey, William Henry Scott, 1860-1931; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965; Hay, Mary-Annette, 1925-2024

Reference: PAColl-9373

Description: Photographs of Byron Brown and family taken ca 1860s-1930s by a variety of photographers. Includes photographs of; his wife, Susie Brown nee Bright; his daughter Pauline Burgess nee Bright; his parents Arthur and Jane Brown; his wife's parents Mary Ann and Frederic Bright; his daughter Pauline Burgess nee Brown; and Bright and Brown properties and businesses in Otaki. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). 29 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photographic prints and photocopies Provenance: Donor is grand-daughter of Byron Brown. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1739 : Brown, Byron Paul: Papers. See also Oral History Collection..

Date: 29 December 1987

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

Reference: EP/1987/7098-F

Description: General Motors worker, Papa Koloi, hosing down a car body with white spirit, one of the messiest jobs in the Petone plant. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Merv Griffiths 29 December 1987. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacitate film negative, 35mm

Date: 9 March 1994

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

Reference: EP/1994/0681-F

Description: Folders Jenny sargent (left) and Xhou Jie Xia, working at the end of the production line at L R Wishart's shirt factory in Levin. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney 9 March 1994. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1 April 1992

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

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP/1992/2065a-F

Description: Chris Lintz of Lintz Estate winery, Martinborough, using a refractometer which measures the sugar content of grapes. Photographed by evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney on the 1st of April 1992. Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: 1841-ca1930

From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-; Martin-Carter, Zoe, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-171

Description: views of Wellington and many of its principal buildings from settlement in 1840 to about the mid 1940s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 8 November 1994

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

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

Reference: EP/1994/3399-F

Description: The Firth Centre just north of Melling Railway station flooded out by the Hutt River. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin on the 8th of November 1994. Quantity: 4 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 11 images.. Physical Description: Dye couple film negatives, 35mm

Date: [ca 1880-1887]

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: MS-Group-0740

Description: Comprises agreements re land, power of attorney, leases and other matters Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further Gear Meat Company records Quantity: 8 folder(s). 0.16 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Probably part of 87-080, a collection found in the IBM building. This group was in the Manuscripts & Archives workroom awaiting papers conservation treatment. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Found in Manuscripts and Archives Workroom, Jul 1998; probably part of 87-080

Date: [ca 1880-1982]

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PA-Group-00160

Description: Gear Meat Works Petone, its works, workers and shops. Other freezing works Arrangement: Prints housed at PAColl-D-106, PAColl-D-154, PAColl-D-160 to 162, PAColl-D-165 to 167, PAColl-D-181 to 186, PAColl-0613, PAColl-0969, PAColl-2827, PAColl-4373, PA6-439 and PA6-445. Negatives in 35mm sequence at 16085 - 16087, and F 68979 1/4. Negatives previously NEGColl-57/1 Quantity: 400 b&w original photographic print(s). 20 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 12 colour original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 18 February 1995

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

By: Burford, Melanie Jayne, 1970-

Reference: EP/1995/C0513-F

Description: Maria Patau (right) and other workers, pack Mallowpuffs at the Griffins factory, Gracefield, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Supervisor Derek Kirk (left) looks on. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Melanie Burford 18 February 1995. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler film negative, 35mm

Date: 23 February 1988

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

Reference: EP/1988/0885-F

Description: Stockpiled cars at the General Motors factory at Petone. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley on the 23rd of February 1988. Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 6 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negatives

Date: 1906-1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: PA1-o-367

Description: Photographs taken for the N Z International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7, by various photographers Interior and exterior photographs of various factories and businesses, showing employees at different activities. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Wellington. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm

Date: 15 July 1999

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

Reference: EP/1999/2092-F

Description: Tangi Commings (left), Barry Conner, and Carol Tom photographed in the factory of New Zealand Electric Lamp Manufacturers, Miramar, Wellington. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin 15 July 1999. This photograph accompanied an article about the factory closing down. Quantity: 2 colour original negative(s) 35mm negative strips comprising 6 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 27 March 1991

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

Reference: EP/1991/0846-F

Description: Michael Goh and Tony Wong, owners of the first business in the New Venture Centre, Karori, wellington. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 27 March 1991. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-448-065/082

Description: Political cartoons. Jim Anderton, leader of the Alliance Party outlines their strategy to become a coalition partner with Labour in the next Government. Jenny Shipley is wooed by potential deputies. Extreme weather conditions around the world does little to persuade big business there is any link between industrial pollution and global climate change. Farmers win concession in Taranaki land grab. The Maori MP's sing a tribute to the departing Prime Minister, Jim Bolger. Jenny Shpley is invested as New Zealand's first woman Prime Minister. A talk-fest is held on Global warming in kyoto, Japan. Jenny Shipley is loath to share the credit for the first year of coalition government. Recently promoted front benchers Maurice Williamson and John Luxton speak out on the new right politics. Psychiatric patients are not given the care they need.(repeated from 3/11/97) Jenny Shipley outlines the message of her administration. Allan Bollard is primed to take over Treasury. A worker's Christmas wish is that his factory won't shut down. Comment on the paralells between Rogernomics and Jenny Shipley's economic approach. John Luxton outlines the pros and cons of tariff reduction on New Zealand industries. On one hand thousands will be out of work, and on the other the homeless will have a chance of sleeping in new cars. Paul Holmes and his wife separate, she seeks a settlement. The government is unable to come to grips with the dangerous levels of private sector overseas debt. After years of record profits and stupendous capital gain, Bell Ameritech decide to rid themselves of Telecom. Quantity: 18 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1868, 1882, 1892-1896, [ca 1900s-1950s], 1966, [ca 1980s-1990s]

From: Hannah family: Collection relating to the Hannah family and R. Hannah & Co. Ltd

Reference: Series-5988

Description: Contains material relating to research into and the history of Charleston, R. Hannah & Co. Ltd, the Hannah family, and Antrim House collected by descendants of Lilian Johnson (nee Hannah). This includes research notes, published outputs, and documents of historical interest sent to R. Hannah & Co. Ltd staff by the public or historians, as well as publications, company records and primary or secondary resources likely collected or kept for research purposes (newspaper clippings, advertising, industry reference guides). Some items include notes refering to a company archive or archive file that no longer exists. Arrangement: Material was either delivered loose or in one of six manilla folders. Folder groupings have not been altered, and loose material was arranged according to subject. Quantity: 15 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscript and typescript material, photographs, ephemera, and published volumes.

Date: 11 June 1988

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

Reference: EP/1988/2431-F

Description: Staff at Philips Electronic Centre, Naenae, Lower Hutt, cheer the last television to come off the production line. Production manager Bob Toes is seated on the television. Photographed by Evening post staff photographer Martin Hunter 11 June 1988. The closure of Philips television assembly line was announced in February 1988 after reduced import tarrifs meant that colour television sets manufactured in New Zealand were no longer compeditive. Philips continued to supply the New Zealand market with models imported from the company's overseas factories. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1925-1974

By: Metters Ltd

Reference: 79-138

Description: Includes minutes of directors, 1950-1973, minutes of annual general meetings, 1928-1960, share register and register of transfers, 1925-1972, wage books, 1927-1940, 1960-1974, financial records, 1964-1974 and stock sheets, 1970-1972 Manufacturers of baths and basins, Petone Quantity: 3 box(es). 14 volume(s). 1.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: 18 June 1975

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

Reference: EP/1975/2473-F

Description: Reg Smith (left), an employee of General Motors Trentham plant receives his $100 incentive bonus from managing director R M Corby. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 18 June 1975. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1979-1993

By: Organic Food Co-operative Society Ltd; Jenkins, David, active 1997

Reference: PAColl-5574

Description: Photographs of Organic Food Co-op premises in Cuba Street and Arthur Street, Wellington; stand at Health & Lifestyle festival, March 1993; and organic gardens. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm, 22068 to 22072. Slides at PA12-1430. The Wellington Organic Food Co-op closed down in 1993. Much of their vegetables were supplied from organic market gardens in the Te Horo area. These suppliers now provide stock to Jim Kebble's "Organic Common Sense", a business established in about 1989. Today (1997) "Organic Common Sense" trades from a premises next to "Changs" vegetable market in Chaffers Street opposite the New World Supermarket. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 40 colour original photographic print(s). 5 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips containing 26 images. 5 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides.