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Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
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.
Tourist Department album 2
Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]
By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department
Reference: PA1-o-498
Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm
Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Date: [ca 1902-1958]
By: Gear Meat Company Ltd
Reference: 87-080
Description: Includes volumes missing from earlier accessions Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See previous accessions 73-047 and 81-295, and MS-Group-0740 Quantity: 15 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Provenance: Found by IBM staff in former offices of Gear Meat Co
Gear Meat Company Ltd :Maps
Date: 1889 - 1979
By: Gear Meat Company Ltd
Reference: MapColl-Collection-GearMeat
Description: Variety of cadastral maps of Petone showing land relating to Gear Meat. Manuscript, blueprints, diazo prints, and photographic reproductions Quantity: 19 map(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Gear Meat Company Ltd. Further records - reference: 81-295.
Parry family : Papers
Date: 1853-1902
By: Parry family
Reference: MS-Papers-0262
Description: Personal letters written to Charles and Alice Parry in England by relatives in New Zealand (mainly Dunedin) and Australia. Many descriptions of hard times in Dunedin; the effects of the rush to the goldfields; news of the wars in the north; references to sending New Zealand meat to Britain and some accounts of life in Sydney Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
Gear Meat Company : Records
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
Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co
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).
Striking Gear Meat workers, Petone - Photograph taken by Peter Avery
Date: 6 April 1981
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Avery, Peter, active 1982
Reference: EP/1981/1406-F
Description: Stiking Gear Meat workers, Petone. They are (from left) - Thomas Meihana with Selina (7 months). Glen Rainford and Hemi (12 months). Malcolm McAllister with Kimiora (5 months). Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Peter Avery 6 April 1981. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope At the time of the photograph being taken the men had been on strike for six weeks. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
Gear Meat Company Ltd : Records
Date: 1888-1955
By: Gear Meat Company Ltd
Reference: 78-047
Description: Comprises industrial agreements, workers compensation, union rules books, regulations, conference reports and acts; receipt books; tally book; wages books; letter books; recipe book; day books; illuminated certificate Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further Gear Meat Company records at 81-295, 87-080, 91-256 Petone meat processing plant Quantity: 70 volume(s). 1 box(es). 2 folder(s). 2.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Copies of Fellmongery Department group photographs (original of one of these was transferred from 81-295).
Workers on the chain, Lonburn Freezing Works - Photograph taken by Ross Giblin
Date: 10 August 1985
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1985/3580-F
Description: Arthur Tonan gutting sheep at the Longburn Freezing Works, Longburn, Manawatu. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin 10 August 1985. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacitate film negative, 35mm
Interview with Frank Barnard
Date: 8, 9 July 1999 - 08 Jul 1999 - 09 Aug 1999
From: Trade union oral history project
By: Barnard, Francis Edmund, 1925-2001
Reference: OHInt-0478/30
Description: Frank Barnard born Auckland 1925. Recalls history of unionism in family - mother union delegate in an amunitions factory in Geelong (Australia). Describes growing up in Freemans Bay (Auckland) and refers to soup kitchens and poverty. Mentions the Ponsonby Gang. Discusses police and their treatment of workers. Recalls joining R & W Hellaby (Butchers) before starting on the Waterfront in 1946/47. Discusses work on the wharves, 1951 Waterfront Lockout and the word scab. Refers to blacklisting. Talks about Auckland Waterside Workers Union (WWU). Refers to loyalty card and the use of it. Mentions Mount Park dispute (over hatches); Roosus shipping and work on the Fort Colan (?). Recalls joining Freezing Works 1952/53. Discusses progression through the Auckland Freezing Workers Union and election as President. Mentions Trevor Kelly, Big Lofty Urlich, Ross Evans and Jack Armstrong. Recounts introduction of CAMPAC (rail beef dressing). Other topics discussed include: involvement of women in the union; Auckland Trades Council; Equal Pay; changes in the meat industry; ACC system; formation of North Island Federation; disaffiliation from the National Meatworkers with reference to Disputes Committee; strike for back pay and intervention of Rob Muldoon; arguments with Fintan Patrick Walsh; 1991 Employent Contracts Act (ECA) which he considers was designed for employers; Employers Association with reference to Ann Knowles; illness and disease with reference to Brucellosis, Leptospirosis and Toxoplasmosis and its effect on women; Auckland Disputes Committee; strikes and wild cat strikes; Arbitration system; militants in the union; loss of members through redundancy and its effect on union finances. Mentions: Tom Collerton, Frank Thorn, Roger Middlemas, Syd Arnst, Frank McNulty, Leo Bernie, Blue Kennedy, Charlie Duane, Fintan Patrick Walsh, Dick Evans, Trevor Kelly, Rob Muldoon, Tom Skinner, Tom Shand and Jim Knox. Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007529-007532 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1907.
Gear Meat Company Ltd : Further records
Date: 1908-1935
By: Gear Meat Company Ltd
Reference: MS-Group-1753
Description: Collection comprises one wages ledger and a stock book. Source of title - Supplied by Library Gear Meat Company Ltd was a meat processing plant based in Petone, Wellington Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr P Everton, Levin, Feb 2009 Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Fire alarm drawing and plan of Gear Meat Company Ltd's plant in Petone, Wellington.
Ian Cruden and Keith Rose at Longburn Freezing Works - Photographs taken by Ross Giblin
Date: 10 August 1985
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s
Reference: EP/1985/3577-F
Description: Freezer head foreman Ian Cruden and byproducts manager Keith Rose in a freezer at the Longburn Freezing Works. Photographs taken 10 August 1985 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Lamb carcasses are stacked behind them. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Striking Gear Meat workers, Petone
Date: 13 April 1981
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1981/1473-F
Description: Stiking Gear Meat workers, Petone, after having heard that a provisional agreement had been reached between the management and union. They had been on strike for almost seven weeks. From left - Des Tarau. Warren Weston. Joe Crew. Tony Wither. Dave Kimura. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 13 April 1981. 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 film negative, 35mm
Right Reverend Manu Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, at the Gear Meat Company, Petone, Lowe...
Date: 1 Oct 1970
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1970/4183-F
Description: Right Reverend Manu Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, at the Gear Meat Company, Petone, Lower Hutt, Wellington, with Maori butchers. Photographs taken 1 October 1970 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Processing sheep, Longburn Freezing Works - Photograph taken by Ross Giblin
Date: 10 August 1985
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s
Reference: EP/1985/3581-F
Description: Longburn freezing worker pulling dowm (stripping) the skin from a sheep carcase on the production chain. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin 10 August 1985. 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 film negative 35mm
Gumboots from Gear Meat Company for auction - Photographs taken by Ross Giblin
Date: 4 March 1982
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s
Reference: EP/1982/0682-F
Description: Gumboots in the Gear Meat Company factory at Petone, with the factory's No 2 Chain in the background. An auction lot number is attached to the nearest boot. Photographs taken 4 March 1982 by Evening Post photographer Ross Giblin. The Gear Meat Company's No 2 Chain was to be sold by auction on 22 March 1982. The gumboots were part of the plant to be sold. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Vogtherr's Hastings Bacon Co Ltd: Fifty years continuous trading, 1914-1964; an appreci...
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.
Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998: 88 photocopies of newsprint copies of full page sprea...
Date: 1952 - 1953
By: Sanders, James Edward, 1911-1998; New Zealand observer (Newspaper)
Reference: J-036-001/088
Description: New Zealand topics include family life, a proposed atomic power plant for Auckland, rates blowout in Auckland, electoral boundary changes, rising public transport fares, retailing, banking, income tax, agricultural protection policies, power cuts and hydroelectric power, flucating wool prices, financing of and patronage of the arts, telephone tapping, undercover police, education policy and funding of the Education Department, meat imports from Denmark, meat trade with the United States, trade with the USSR, political parties, the cost of living, difficulties funding the construction of the Auckland Harbour bridge, the Land Settlement Bill, local body financing, the profitability of the National Airways Corporation, deregulation of power boards, sales tax on motor vehicles and aging vehicles, import controls, traffic accidents and drivers' licences, manners and customs, Royal visit, international borrowing from the United States, public expenditure, taxation, funding of Auckland's sewage scheme, price controls, exchange controls, the budget, strikes, housing policies, the election, betting, rugby, cricket spectators, rabbiters, hairdessing prices and the liquor trade and duck shooting. International topics include relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, the Empire Finance Ministers Conference, naval command of the Atlantic, climate change and international relations in Europe, the British monarchy, the "communist threat from the 'Red East' ", US President Eisenhower's dealings with USSR President Joseph Stalin, judicial power disputes in South Africa, race relations in South Africa and in Kenya, New Zealand's meat trade with the United States, meat imports from Denmark, New Zealand's trade with the USSR, the American Presidential election, Pacific region relationships, an international air race, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, attacks on British residents in Egypt, the spece of the Korean war, disputes over Persian oil and internal politics in Persia (Iran). Quantity: 88 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size photocopies, vertical orientation. Image size approximately 370 by 250 mm.
Interview with Bill Wiggins
Date: 12 Sept 1988 - 12 Sep 1988
From: World War I Oral History Archive
By: Wiggins, William Robert, 1899-1991
Reference: OHInt-0006/83
Description: Describes in detail family background (father at Chelsea Sugar Refinery), education, employment, and life in Auckland pre war (selling 'Truth' newspapers, warehouse work), apprenticeship as a blacksmith and details of work. Recalls enlistment, guarding ammunition factory in Normanby Road, ceremonial duties, military funerals, the Mount Eden Guards. Transfer to being a guard at Motuihe Island, details of guard duty, relations with German internees, anti German feeling in Auckland, living conditions of internees, various anecdotes, Count von Luckner Kircheiss, his escape from Motuihe in detail, Dr Schultz. Transport overseas with the 41st Reinforcements, morale among conscripts, death of "Taffy" Herbert Lloyd Dash. Describes ports of call, especially Capetown, submarine attacks. Recalls arrival at Sling Camp, training and discipline, military burials at Tidworth Cemetery in detail, and being accidentally gassed, describes sensation, Tidworth Hospital, being transported back to New Zealand as an invalid. Describes first marriage, children, Moerewa freezing works, then a slaughterman, his career with various freezing works in detail, involvement with RSA at Kawakawa and other places, Anzac Day parades, effect of gassing on his life, being a freezing worker during the 1930 Depression, the bobby calf scheme and calf pools. Recalls venereal disease prevention, relations with British, hobbies, deep sea fishing, views on present RSA, and government. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Ranfurly War Veterans' Home, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002790 - OHC-002792 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) in two parts. 3 Electronic document(s) - transcript, summary. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB 525/1 - 2, OHDL-000362. Black and white photographs:-. Bill Wiggins, 1988. Bill Wiggins, 1988. Bill Wiggins and striped marlin, ca 1960s. Bill Wiggins and second wife, Dorothy, 1948. Bill Wiggins, his daughters, and brother, during World War Two. Bill Wiggins, fishing trip, 1921. Bill Wiggins and daughters, 1941. Bill Wiggins and Dave Whitehead, undated. Bill Wiggins, 1915