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Waihi Gold Mining Company Ltd : Miscellaneous records
Date: 1895-1906
By: Waihi Gold Mining Company
Reference: MS-Papers-0632
Description: Diary describing diggings at the mine, Nov 1895-Jan 1897, entries made usually every 5-7 days. Three memos from and concerning the company, 1899-1900. A flow sheet of the Union Mill, Waihi, 1906 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (58 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph
Ziman family : Papers
Date: 1891-1933
By: Ziman family
Reference: MS-Papers-1648
Description: Comprises letter book of Jacob Ziman, founder of Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand; correspondence, accounts, statements, contracts relating to it and West Coast goldmines and others, including Waihi Syndicate Ltd and to Humphries Scaffold Bracket Co Ltd. Report in German of Kotuku oil field, 1910. Also includes private letters describing situation of Jews in New Zealand, women's suffrage; miscellaneous family and business papers. Language - Report in German of Kotuku oilfield, 1910 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Eustace, C H :Quartz skips, Waihi
Date: ca 1890s
By: Eustace, C H, active 1890s
Reference: PA4-0966
Description: Stereoscopic photograph of G M Co. [gold mining] Quartz skips at Waihi Grand Junction, taken by C H Eustace ca 1890. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Quartz skips, Waihi Grand Junction. G.M. Co.; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Recto - left of image - C H Eustace, photo - Waihi N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print
Photographs relating to gold mining, chiefly at Waihi
Date: ca 1900
Reference: PAColl-7293
Description: Photographs relating to gold mining, chiefly at Waihi, circa 1900. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-019271 to 19317 Quantity: 47 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Chiefly glass negatives
Family history research essays
Date: 1994-1995
From: Genealogical Research Institute of New Zealand Inc : Records, including family history research essays
Reference: MS-Papers-5551
Description: Four prize-wining essays from the 1994 and 1995 GRINZ competitions by Jennifer Pierson (on Charles Pierson), Vaudine Barnes (on Frances Clarke), Antonia Jones (on Elizabeth Pickering, nee Wooding); and Marjorie Harris (on George Edmonds) `Boom and bust; a businessman on the goldfields' by Jennifer Pierson. The story of American-born Charles Anson Crocker Herrick Philetous Pierson who arrived in New Zealand about 1860 and spent the rest of his life on the South Island goldfields as a cordial maker. In his forties he was forced to abandon his properties at Stafford and begin again in Kumara. `Elizabeth Wooding, 1854-1920' by Antonia Jones. The story of Elizabeth Wooding who came to Canterbury on the Zealandia in 1858 as an assisted immigrant with her parents and brother John. She married Richard Pickering at Kaiapoi in 1874. `Frances Clarke nee Stelfox, 1847-1924; raising a family in Russia and New Zealand' by Vaudine M Barnes. The story of Frances Clarke who arrived in New Zealand on the `Kaikoura' in 1886 accompanied by eight of her nine children; her family background, growing up in Northwich, marriage to engineer Thomas Plummer Clarke and move to Russia. Her life in the British community centred on Moscow, raising her family and moving from one textile town to another, migration to New Zealand, life in Onehunga, Auckland, the move to Waihi and later life. Includes photographs `The Labouring immigrant' by Marjorie Harris, the story of immigrant George Edmonds who arrived in New Zealand in 1863 on the `Brother's Pride' with his wife Martha Johnson. They settled at Kaiapoi Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, photographs (some photocopies)