Places

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Brown, Nathaniel Isaiah Wilhelm, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1488-F

Description: Panoramic view of the business premises of "N I W Brown & Co. Ltd. Royal Mail Contractors & General Carriers, Distributors of Goodrich Tyres, Plume Motor Spirits, Mobil-oils etc." There are four cars parked outside and a truck with an open tray. Two men are perched on the engine while six men and women staff members are seated in the tray. Label on the door of the truck reads "Palmerston Nth - Wellington Transport service". Five other men are standing by the cars outside the garage. Excelsior Tea Rooms are seen across the road on the far right, and premises of M H White (General Engineer) is on the far left. Young by in the foreground far left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Brown Motor Garage. Rongotea. 10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 95.0 cm

Date: 20 Oct 2009

From: MOTAT Telecommunications oral history project

By: Jury, Trevor Evered, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-1004-04

Description: Interview with Trevor Jury, born in Featherston in 1926. Outlines his family background and refers to starting work as a message boy at the Featherston Post Office when he was 14. Talks about his duties, and comments that the message boys did not deliver the casualty telegrams during the War. Mentions being sent to telegraph school in Wellington in 1942. Refers to learning to send and receive Morse code and having to achieve 22 words per minute. Recalls the June 1942 Wairarapa earthquake while he was in Wellington, the Herd Street post office building being flooded, and doing fire watch after the earthquake. Mentions joining the Home Guard and trying to set up a Morse light signal system in the Featherston area. Recalls seeing Japanese prisoners of war being marched to the prison camp, hearing about the riot at the camp, and the court of enquiry held at the Featherston court house. Discusses his work as a telegraphist and other duties at the Featherston Post Office when he returned from Wellington in 1942, working from temporary premises until a new post office was built. Recalls setting up Morse telephone lines each morning, and refers to Creed machines [teleprinters?] which were mainly operated by women. Comments on the difficulty of sending weather reports by telegram because numbers had up to six characters whereas letters had four. Recalls working night shifts in the telephone exchange. Mentions postmaster Jack Hislop and librarian Mrs Halpin who encouraged him to continue his education, and studying for University Entrance. Recalls the housing shortage after the War. Refers to low wages in the post office and difficulty of getting promotions. Recalls the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and being the Post Office staff member at Cross Creek station when the Queen and Prince Philip travelled to the Wairarapa on the Rimutaka incline railway. Discusses leaving the post office in 1955 and working for NIMU Insurance in Wellington as an insurance assessor. Mentions being active in the New Zealand Institute of Management and the Insurance Institute. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001714, OHA-7521. Search dates: 1926 - 1940 - 2009 - 1955 Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.

Date: 1921, 1971, 1993, 1995

From: Casey, Mary, fl 2013: Papers relating to baker Joseph Newman and postmaster Joseph Frederick Jobson

Reference: MS-Papers-11719-1

Description: Folder contains two empty envelopes addressed to Mr J F Jobson, one empty envelope addressed to Telegraph Section, as well as papers and newspaper cutting relating to J F Jobson being awarded the British Empire Medal in 1971, including a letter sent from Government House in Wellington. The folder also contains an Officer Promoted certificate for J F Jobson from the Post and Telegraph Department and newspaper clippings regarding the Te Aro Post Office building and the Herd Street Post and Telegraph building on Wellington's waterfront. Relationship complexity - The Photographic Archive holds a copy of the officer promotion notice at PAColl-10021-2 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PH-2013-016.

Date: [191-?]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/2-002254-F

Description: Mail coaches leaving Ohawawai, Northland, taken ca 1910s by Northwood brothers Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Mail Coaches Leaving Ohaeawai. 39.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Northwood Bros. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1910

Reference: 1/2-056249-F

Description: Tom Moore's horse drawn Royal Mail Coach travelling on a wet and muddy road between Okahukura and Whangamomona, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1910

From: Post and telegraph collection :Mainly mail coach photographs ca. 1880's.

Reference: 1/4-019614-F

Description: Transferring mail from the Springfield train to the Cass train, owing to a slip on the line. Taken at Slovens Creek, Canterbury, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: 1/1-019317-G

Description: A Republic Royal Mail bus owned by Graham and Gebbies parked outside the Fernhill Hotel, Hawkes Bay. Photograph taken by Henry Whitehead circa 1920s. Note on back of file print reads: "The bus was owned by "Grahame & Gebbies", left Hastings at approx 7.30 am. Solid tyres and possibly chain driven to the rear wheels, & the make would be "Republic". Jim Painter was the driver in 1921 and drove it for many, many years. Its trip ended at Waiwhare from where it returned to Hastings." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1920]

Reference: 1/2-038428-F

Description: Royal Mail car, in mud, circa 1920, probably on the Gisborne - Tolaga Bay road. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Ca 1910s

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000059-G

Description: Centre of Manaia, showing the Post and Telegraph Station, and the war memorial. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Manaia. 468 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches