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Gold extraction works at Paeroa - Photograph taken by Fred E Flatt
Date: [ca 1918]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000566-G
Description: Gold extraction works at Paeroa, circa 1918. Photograph taken by F.E.F. (probably Fred E Flatt, stationer, at Paeroa in 1918). Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Gold extraction works. Paeroa; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.E.F. Series. 3685 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative
Scene alongside the Ohinemuri River, near Paeroa, with a goldmining dredge
Date: Circa 1916
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
Reference: APG-0705-1/2-G
Description: Scene alongside the Ohinemuri River, near Paeroa, with a goldmining dredge. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1916. An original print is in Godber Album Vol 109, p 36 (Pa1-q-102). Dated from other images in this album. Inscriptions: Album page - Dredging on the Ohinemuri River. Paeroa. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches
Godber album 10
Date: Between 1915 and 1926
From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Sherriff, D J, active 1901-1931
Reference: PA1-q-102
Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, relating to his family, his work and his interests. Family photographs include portraits of his wife (Laura) and two children (William and Phyllis), and scenes of their home in Whiteman's Valley Road, Silverstream; views of the Hutt Valley including large numbers of cars travelling to Trentham Racecourse, and the Hutt River. Another group of images relate to a holiday at the Mendip Hills Homestead in Canterbury, with scenes of farm life, including haymaking, merino sheep, and farm buildings. During their stay in the South Island Godber also took photographs of Dunedin (including the Ross Reservoir, Otago Boys' High School, Seacliff Mental Hospital, the 1926 Dunedin Exhibition, and the Hillside Railway Workshops); Invercargill (including the Invercargill Railway Workshops); Stewart Island, Moeraki, Tuatapere, Waiau River, Oamaru and Port Chalmers. Various railway stations in Canterbury and Otago, the Burnside Iron Mills, and the Rosslyn Mills. Godber was a volunteer fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade with the album including views of the building, groups of firemen, fire engines and other fire fighting equipment, and a building in Petone damaged by fire. In his work with New Zealand Railways, mainly at the Petone Railway Workshops, he took interior photographs of various buildings, including the Machine Shop and finishing benches, the engine room, lathes, boilers, and fitting shops. He also took photographs of many of the steam engines that were built and worked on at the workshops. One scene shows a group of men watching a fight. Many images show his interest in logging railways, particularly in the Piha, Karekare, Anawhata area. Scenes of logging camps, various methods of transporting logs including bullock teams, logging trains, and dams created and then tripped to send logs down by river, and timber mills. Other topics covered in Godber's photographs are scenes at Maori marae and meeting houses, with some of the people identified; Maori carving and rafter designs; beekeeping, and gold mining. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber album 109 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 38.0 x 26.5 cm (257 p.)